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Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

We can use films and art to express what is happening around all of us.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.