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At The End Of The Day, Audiences Just Want To Laugh And Be Entertained. They Want To Escape From Their Reality, And That's Why We Make Movies, To Get People To Escape From The Realities.

When Critics Or People Judge, I Think It's Harder To Make A Commercial, Pop Movie Than It Is To Make A Pretentious Art Film. It's Harder To Reach Millions Of People And Satisfy Them And Make Them Happy. These Films Kind Of Get Ghettoized, This Genre Because There Are So Many Big, Big Movies That Are Such Big Hits, But Aren't Any Good. The Audiences, They're Not Judging The Style Of The Director, Or The Execution Of The Film. They're Just Looking To Be Entertained. They Want To Escape From Their Reality, And That's Why We Make Movies, To Get People To Escape From The Realities.

Movies Are The Biggest Export In The World, The Biggest American Export. It Influences People All Over The World. Music And Movies. That's What's Exciting About What We Do, The Fact That It's So Global. It Brings People Together. People Don't Have To Understand The Language To Laugh At Actors. They're Going To Laugh Even Though They Don't Understand What They're Saying. Cause They're Seeing It.

The Producer Can Put Something Together, Package It, Oversee It, Give Input. I'm The Kind Of Producer That Likes To Take A Back Seat And Let The Director Run With It. If He Needs Me, I'm There For Him. As A Director, I Like To Have The Producer There With Me. As A Producer, I Don't Want To Be There Because I Happen To Be A Director First And Foremost, I Don't Want To "that Guy."

There's No Greater Feeling Than People Coming Up To Me And Going, "man, My Father Was Dying, And We Went To See Rush Hour, And It Was The Greatest Night We Had In Years Together. We Sat In That Theater And We Laughed For Two Hours Without Stopping. That Was Just A Great Memory That I Had Before My Father Died."