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People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.