I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.
Russell BrandExecutive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.
Russell BrandI suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.
Russell BrandMy mate Karl once told me heโd been looking after this five-year-old boy who โ not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words โ said, โI want something.โ He didnโt know what it was. Not โI want sweetsโ, or โa can of Cokeโ, or โto watch the Tweeniesโ, or whatever it is theyโre into now (I like Bagpuss), but โI want something.โ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.
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