This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

I was basically a complete failure up until the moment that I started making films.

I didn't know what I wanted to do.

And I did believe what my parents taught me that you should try to make the world a better place

would be what I would like to do.

But my attempts at doing so weren't successful.

We were fighting against the Vietnam War.

We thought that was very, very important.

The war went on.

We'd be out in the streets battling the cops.

The cops beat me up.

The attempts to try and improve our community weren't succeeding.

Camera in hand, everything changed.

The camera is a license for me to go up to you and to invade every single part of your life.

The camera is a license to invade people's personal space.

I think a lot of your documentaries also show this aspect of kind of social justice.

There's this undercurrent of let's relate to a lot of people who are fighting for a cause

and then show an extreme way what the random vacations are if we don't fight this condition.

I don't know how you define patriotism, but I want to make this country better.

And I'm not a good soldier, so I can't go and fight for the country.

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