Hayley Caronia

Like Stanley Kubrick and this lens that was developed by NASA's Apollo Lunar Program, he used it because he wanted to shoot in like a candlelit scene in a 1975 film.

If I was NASA, I'd be like, figure it out, dude.

Why do you need our cameras?

And I don't know, it just seems odd to me that you would, I don't know.

Is that weird to anyone else?

Also, our government is actively involved in Hollywood.

We know this.

They want to make sure that the government is portrayed in a positive light or an accurate light.

They want to ensure accuracy and kinds of action in spy movies like the CIA worked on, you know, Zero Dark Thirty and things like that.

And NASA claims to not operate a film studio per se, but they do help film productions and they let them film at their facilities and things like that.

And then the CIA operates a formal entertainment industry liaison office.

This is out of their Office of Public Affairs.

And they, too, work with filmmakers and TV producers and writers and stuff.

And it's not that they're making their own movies, although they could.

The department works very closely with Hollywood.

They work.

They approve scripts and they consult on scripts.

They give technical advice and things like that.

So, you know, they want to make sure the agency looks good.

And I can understand that.