I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.
But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.