Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally.
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
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