I think it's a category thing. I think one of the things is that when a society gets rigid its' categories, get very very rigid, and they just go. What was astonishing when I started making films is that I'm just put... and this is really key, the music you use has to be the music you like, because the audience know it when you're cheating, when you're putting in something, when you're putting in ghost town. They know it and they don't like you for it, but if they think your real true inner DJ is coming out, they will like it. The people I knew in television, and still know, when they would leave television, would sit and talk about the music they liked. And they were really good, but when they got into those categories, they felt, "Oh, I have to have money, money, money when I'm dealing with banks.
-Adam Curtis, Interview on "Shifty"
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