I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. Itโs been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymoreโ-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.
Win ButlerThere's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.
Win ButlerI just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.
Win ButlerI think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
Win ButlerOnce I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.
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