Name: Seth Macfarlane On Depictions Of Optimism In Hollywood | Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Uploaded: 2026-03-06T16:40:19.000Z
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You in some quote or something talk about optimistic and fun.

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Maybe it was looking back at the things that you enjoy.

But you use those two words, optimistic and fun, and

that is putting that out into the world, which you do through your work and your music is a contribution to this thing.

We're talking about why our hearts ache at this point.

Putting that out is, if that's all you did in life, you can't discount that as moving the needle in the right direction.

That's why I did the Orville and that's why we still have yet to do a season four.

Because when I was a kid, Hollywood was providing that voice through in various forms.

And we're doing a really, you know, some of the blame lies right here in this town.

The dishes that we are serving up are so dystopian and so pessimistic.

And yeah, there's a lot to be pessimistic about, but it's so one sided.

There's nothing we're doing that's providing anyone an image of hope.

I mean, look, I love the Handmaid's Tale.

Beautifully written, beautifully directed.

But there's a lot more of that than there is of what we used to get from Captain Picard.

They're certainly giving us a lot of cautionary tales, but

where are the blueprints that they once gave us for how to do things correctly?

It can't all be just, here's what's gonna happen to you if you fuck up.

Here's what you can achieve if you change your ways and do things right.

Look at the joy and happiness and laughter you can come get if you go this direction.

I drive down like driving down Beverly Boulevard today and looking at the billboards of what's to come and it's like, yep, dystopian, dystopian, horror, negative, pessimistic.

There's nothing that's, that's giving anybody kind of.

Now as an adult, it's like, all right, I can see past that.

But when I was a kid, I had the opposite.

I had a lot of templates and characters who were kind of the Gary Cooper in High Noon of when I grew up, who would do the right thing, who would.

He would on his honeymoon and he's pulling away and he's like, well, shit, I'm on my honeymoon and I gotta turn around and fight this bad guy.

But you know, it's the right thing to do because I'm an altruistic guy and I just gotta do what's right.

And television and film were full of those kinds of people.

Ever since Tony Soprano and again, great fucking show.

It's all about the complicated, fucked up, drug addled person who's like, isn't this person a mess?

you know, I mean, everyone on the White Lotus is brilliant, but

everyone, no one is someone you'd want to be.

There's nobody who you'd look at and say, boy, I want to be like that guy.

If the shit hit the fan, I'd want to do what Gary Cooper did.

And I think if we did a little bit of that in this town, even just a little bit, we actually.

That's the only thing really that Hollywood can do that's worthwhile.

Because as we all learned from this election, nobody gives a fuck what celebrities think.

Like, we can tweet, we can talk like people don't care.

And we're not doing the best job right now of telling those stories in a way that gives people hope.

That may be like a way oversimplification of things, but I do think that that's.

It's incumbent upon us to take a good fucking hard look at that and see what we can do to change it.

And let me say, while you have those thoughts, listen to the lush life.

And I'm not just bringing this around in a circle.