While interviewing regular folks at each respective political convention last year, what celebrities did you find inspired the most anger?
One of the things we set out to explore was the claim that if you’re an actor/writer/director you are automatically considered a Hollywood elite. What they don’t take into account is most people aren’t from Hollywood. They come from all over America. There’s something so odd about it because the whole “elite” title is propaganda to marginalize a certain group of people. Poliwood is about putting people together to see what we have in common rather than take the easy route of capitalizing on divisive exploitation. Do actors lose work because of their political involvement? No. I’ve directed 20-something movies and never said: I’d love to cast this person as the lead but they’re a socialist so I can’t. [Laughs] How does Poliwood fit in with your other current event-based films like Wag the Dog, Disclosure, and What Just Happened? I’m just trying to show where we are in a world at that particular time. At times, I don’t think I took it far enough. In Man of the Year I didn’t hammer it hom
