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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

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.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.