I'm concerned that we're going to lose some of that because the legislature has been so unreasonable on support for the Film Commission. People like Bill Wittliff and Rick Linklater and Robert Rodriguez and other filmmakers began to make pictures that told stories about who we are. Then for a while, Texas seized control of its story in the movie business. 'The Last Picture Show' was the first movie that looked like Texas, even though it was very dismal-looking, it was very familiar to me. And it wasn't until the novels of Larry McMurtry began to be made into movies that I began to recognize the state that I lived in. the mad bombers, the motorcycle gangs, the chainsaw massacres, all of those were Texas stereotypes manufactured in Hollywood. After the Kennedy assassination, that totally changed, and everything Texas was evil.

These were John Wayne movies shot in Arizona, which is supposed to stand in for Texas, and which celebrated the myth of the individualistic cowboy on this existential plane. I think there's an interesting arc, which starts with Hollywood glorifying the myth of Texas. We both struggle with education, for instance. California is seen as a kind of high-tax, big-government model, and Texas is the opposite, and yet they have, in some respects, rather similar outcomes. California has not a single statewide-elected Republican, and of course Texas hasn't elected a Democrat in more than 20 years. 2 states in terms of population, and they have almost perfectly opposing political trajectories. They are each majority-minority, which presages the future of America itself they're unusual in that regard. And I think there's something like that in the relationship California and Texas. In other words, they're genetically identical, but they're physically different.

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