What podcasts say about Tim Robbins
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What Tim Robbins has said on podcasts
48 statements · 25 positive · 19 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral
Silo depicts a controlled society enforcing censorship and compliance.
“This is about a controlled society where information is censored and where compliance is necessary. And if you don't comply, you get sent out into the hostile environment.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 8:37
Oligarchs are increasingly producing movies portraying themselves favorably.
“So I realized that the oligarchs are starting to make movies about themselves. Oligarchical cinema.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 13:48
People who were wrong about the Iraq War received promotions.
“All the people that get it wrong, they get. They got. Particularly Iraq War. They got. Anyone that got it wrong got promotions.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 17:11
Media figures who promoted the Iraq War received better jobs.
“people in the media as well, you know, they. They promoted it. They got, you know, better jobs.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 17:20
- on European reporting on Iraq weapons of mass destructionPositiveJul 29, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
European reporting questioned Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction evidence more openly.
“I was reading stuff from Europe and what they were writing about the weapons of mass destruction and that there wasn't any evidence and it wasn't being covered like it was here. It was more open, more transparent, the reporting.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 22:00
Tim Robbins associates ivermectin with his sense of smell returning after one day.
“And, you know, I followed what you were going through with the ivermectin, which was a drug that I had taken, and, you know, I had lost my sense of smell. And a day later, it was back. So I knew there was something going on with that.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 25:19
The COVID period may have been used to divide society.
“I suspect that that whole period of time was another way to divide us, you know, in the larger picture.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 27:25
Tim Robbins rejects trusting people solely because they are considered experts.
“I don't trust virtuous experts. I don't think. I don't think experts are. I don't believe in experts.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 31:53
Lockdowns deprived children of two years of socialization and education.
“there's kids that are, you know, had two years robbed of them from socialization and education.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 35:11
Children can recover from lockdown-related social and emotional difficulties.
“the good news is you can get out of that funk.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 35:41
Society should avoid repeating COVID-era propaganda-driven behavior.
“I just want us to not do it again. You know, I want us to have the knowledge and the consciousness to not fall for that again.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 38:48
The COVID period eliminated many spontaneous workplace conversations across disagreements.
“we totally lost the water cooler conversation. That accidental conversation that happens at work with a co worker who you don't necessarily agree with”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 40:39
Allowing negative tests alongside vaccine passports helped London’s West End rebound faster than Broadway.
“their West End rebounded immediately, unlike Broadway. And the reason it did is because during that time period, you could show a vaccine passport, but you could also show a negative test.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 44:33
Cancel culture operates similarly to Soviet-era punitive social control.
“they felt like cancel culture was basically operating in the same way as the Soviet Union did.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 47:38
- on The Actors’ Gang prison theater programPositiveJul 29, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Theater improvisation teaches incarcerated people alternatives to responding to anger with anger.
“what they come to understand is that. But they don't have to respond to anger with anger. There are other choices. And in fact, in real life, they can do that too”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 54:03
The Actors’ Gang operates its rehabilitation programs in 18 California prisons.
“now we're in 18 prisons in the state of California doing these programs.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 57:02
Art can transform people and shift their consciousness.
“Because art is a transformer. You know, it is something that can shift consciousness.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 58:45
Cassette tapes retain more information than heavily compressed MP3 files.
“there's more. There's more information in a little cassette tape than on a. You know what. It's mp3 that's been compressed, you know, and compressed and compressed and compressed.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:18:38
Recommendation algorithms cannot reliably guide viewers to great films like The Battle of Algiers.
“That's now been replaced by an algorithm. And I'm not trusting that algorithm is going to find it's, you know, it's going to show me the way to Battle of Algiers or any kind of these great movies.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:23:07
Silo currently has approximately a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
“I think silo's like 100 rotten tomatoes.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:24:21
A film like The Shawshank Redemption would not be produced in Hollywood today.
“films like Shawshank Redemption would not get made today”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:30:26
AI cannot reproduce Tim Robbins’s individual creative perspective.
“I don't think you could plug that into A.I.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:38:38
Actors’ unions should prohibit AI from replacing actors.
“The hard line should have been, you know, you cannot use this to replace actors.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:39:06
- on AI protections in writers’ unionsNegativeJul 29, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Weak AI protections in writers’ union negotiations will have harmful consequences.
“I think that we're going to see the ramifications of that, unfortunately.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:39:22
Projects made without AI should receive a distinct certification seal.
“I think that's a great idea.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:40:14
Creative risk is necessary to produce genuinely new and fresh films.
“only, only will the risk produce something genuine and new and fresh.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:42:20
Film distribution will eventually become more egalitarian, though independent release is currently risky.
“in the future there's going to be some form of distribution that. That will be more egalitarian, but right now it's a huge risk.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:45:37
Independent films require foreign sales before production begins.
“You have to have foreign sales in place.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:45:56
Pre-selling foreign rights can eliminate investors’ financial risk before filming begins.
“they've already sold it for more than they've paid. And so there's really no risk, no gamble.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:46:16
Three of Robbins’s post-Oscar films were excellent but largely unseen.
“I was in three movies after I won the Oscar for Mistakes river that I've considered three of the best movies in my career, but nobody's seen them.”
Open the episode · #2532 - Tim RobbinsListen at 1:47:48
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