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I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.