I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction or what appears to be nonaction. That's a hard concept for Western audiences. . . . We wanted to show a kind of moral action, a spiritual action, an emotional action. Some people will pick up on it; some won't.