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Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

Theater and film are essentially the same - just different kinds of storytelling.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.