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The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.