Joel Silver
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"Joel Silver" is an American film producer, known for action films like Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and The Matrix (franchise)#Films/The Matrix trilogy. He is owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He has been a rival to Michael Eisner, former C.E.O of The Walt Disney Company, since their days at Paramount Pictures.

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I don't claim to know how to sell anything. I'm a geek.

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It's an odd little movie. We weren't sure who would show up.

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Ever since Fahrenheit 9/11 , I think we've been seeing there's a real audience for movies with political agendas. I don't know how many people are showing up because they want to hear political messages, but they're certainly more open to hearing them.

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It's a cautionary tale. V says people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. That is the essence of the story.

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It was like a 1930s comic book set in the future. I can't say what it was, but there was something about it that made me think it would work as a movie.

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I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix , we saw that people wanted more than that.

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This is a movie that is special.... It's about violence and society, ... Look, we need help on this. We need people to understand what this movie is and what it's trying to do. Look, it is a controversial movie.

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It wasn't working out, ... There was some problems. We went into a different direction.

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We really haven't marketed to that group. I'm not sure why. We market to urban audiences.

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