Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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 are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.