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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.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

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.

It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

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.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.