What follows are some excerpts from the interview:
"The reason these heroic characters are always popular is because we are all somewhat limited in our real world. Even when I was Governor I wished that I could do the things that I wanted to do but I couldn't because of the system, the way it works. Or because of the way the law works," says Schwarzenegger.
"The people have certain rights and those rights have to be protected – and they should be protected – but for some criminals you don't feel like they ought to be. In real life you have to first get a search warrant and by that time he's gone. It drives you kind of crazy!"
"In a heroic TV show, you can make it happen. We can all live out our fantasies. So the idea is that this Governor, after he retires, says, 'With all that I have learned in my life about sport and camaraderie and discipline and stunts, now I'm going to do all the things that when I was in office I was not able to do."
He'll accomplish this task with a number of eco-friendly gadgets and a team of teenage technogeeks (making this sound like something out of the '80s).
Schwarzenegger continues, "You know how kids are always learning without really being taught? They pick things up if they aren't given to them in a preachy way. We're not doing in a way that says to people 'You better never do that. That's the old Al Gore kind of a way to do this, to make you feel guilty. Guilt hasn't worked. Making people feel bad hasn't worked. You've got to make them feel good and draw them into the positive rather than keep talking about the negative."
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