Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.
It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.
I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ], where it feels like a reality show. I have hope that the right decision will be made.
Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.
Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
I think with Donald Trump we're seeing the sort of utterly vanished line at long last of enter - between entertainment and politics. I mean there's always been an enormous dose of entertainment in politics. Trump has completely erased that line but the Trump phenomenon when it comes to where the media's culpability is how much we should be beating ourselves up, that's a complicated question because one of the distinctive features of our era is we know exactly what consumers are doing almost in real time.
In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.
