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I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.