It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.
The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.