The new technology would be the answer, but 12 years ago technology had not yet caught up at the station. Last year he gave thanks to the Production Team that pushed themselves to deliver some thing never been done before, a marvelous movie was created. This is another example of why we go to the movies to be astonished into dream as well. It was all of this technology, innovation and creativity, ticket price to consumers has remained remarkably stable over many, many of us, roughly dollars. Other than listening to music, watching free tv programming, the most affordable, accessible entertainment is watching a picture inside the stateoftheart theater. Thats why theyve told theaters continue to try were people than all theme parks and major sporting event combine. It has never been a better time to be a consumer of movies and television. 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Silicon valley and hollywood are making progress on this front and i applaud them for doing so. So to answer the question next month, why do movies not her . Did not her because of the enormous contribution to the creative art form. Movies not because they elevate and enriched the landscape of our country. Movies position america favorably on the global stage both politically and economically and directly or indirectly puts it on the table of more than 2 million of our fellow citizens. The movies deliver value to the sooners from their affordable price point to delivery across multiple platforms, but most of all, Mavy Stoddard because they educate and inspire. They have the power to change peoples minds and even allies. Films like to kill a mockingbird and platoon had a profound impact on me as a human name and ill never forget them. If i ask each and every one of these today, you point out are suggested thursday film, i suggest each one of you could answer with a film that motivated or changed in many ways. Set them on the company did answer the question i would tell you just proved my point answer the question is not almost two years ago. Movies do not her in a thank you for listening this afternoon. [applause] im having a marco rubio moment. [laughter] thank you, senator. We have a wide variety of questions. I hope youre ready to cover the landscape. Starting off with of course a topic import in washington right now, the country violence, gun violence. The president in his state of the union made an appeal to reduce violent pay what about reducing the amount of violence in movies and is 30 from so much shooting on the screen . Thats a great question. As you pointed out in your remarks, one of the first things we did is we are gathered here a few blocks away at the white house. The president was giving up this morning citizens of word to a number of people. They worked very closely as you mentioned here we spent 30 years together work on everything from autism and childcare, so i was very honored as one of the authors and founding of the peace corps, which he served in the 60s. There were people in newtown, connecticut who saved. I represented newtown for 30 years. The night before december 14. I have a hard time talking about it. So i care about it deeply as you pointed out. I spent 30 years in the Senate Working out issues on childrens issues, six are deeply about the subject otterness out of this important supporting the administration suffers, the Vice President s task force to look at these questions and said we want to be part of that conversation i may have been in many ways. But that executive order, Regulation Establish the Rating System in the 1960s to provide tools for parents to a better choices about what their children may see. Over the years, the system has evolved in the late 1960s to the pointed at their smart descriptors involved and so forth. Technology has changed. Of course today is is a mentioned already the amount of platforms provide so many more places it can be we are working it will be a part of that in the coming weeks. We already are part of it. I think it is an important issue they were going to be working with the administration to find out ways we can be supported. The me tell you what the spaces for us. I feel very strongly that this country this industry has been in the forefront from its inception. Films that are charge and provoke not always were received warmly because they look with more favorable as been released at the time. But we found is only provide choice for entertainment, we believe very strongly in control giving parents the tools they have to have to make decisions they want. When the child is out of their home, but with a seat . What can you learn about what is available to them . And thirdly, they educate the people are wherewith those tools are and how they can access than many modern technology, including websites and so forth. So the choice, control and education are the three legs of that second piece of control is where we feel very strongly. We do as much as we can to provide the tools and give people the choice is the days they want to have. What is your opinion on the amount of violence in movies . Is there too much credit and if so, should hollywood do something . The audiences buried in our country. We produce product and give people choices and people ought to have information about what they see with a walk in so they can make a choice to pay that price and that pink you get in the business says content and thats a slip or slope and youve got to be careful about that. There is a temptation, but the best these to be had is giving people information they need to make the right choices for themselves. Particularly parents so they cannot control what comes in their homes and better information about what exists in their children go out the door. Have you had a chance to talk with president obama himself on the gun issue . If so, what if he told them . Now, i have a hunt that. He might do you to . The calls come from him to me. Id be delighted to talk to him, but hes got a lot on his mind. Is it fair to paint video games and hollywood films as a fact or not shootings . Is sort of predict the bullet and away. There were people who suggested, a further reason for people before any of this existed. If you look at the history, this kind of a lurching to suggest that this is the root cause of the problems. And we take advantage for one in and suggest something and not his debate that goes on in the introduction was involved in these issues. Its not a seventhlargest producer comes. We were number one, but if you asked me where we need to be focusing a lot of our attention, it is in the Mental Health base. I mention the Mental Health parity legislation. Pete domenici, ted kennedy, many others. Gordon smith. We are deeply involved in this, but it happened to have been chairing the committee of the florida senate. My hope is with much more pyrotechnics about guns and media, and and i hope his luck may not produce the results in congress, the Mental Health space if we dont do anything else, finally put meaningful resources and to discourage a Mental Health. I dont know how many of you read that blood by the woman who announced she was the mother of a child very much like this for and took the lives of the children in newtown and a lot of anxiety and not many opportunities to access the mental help they need. I used to say to audiences in congress, is there anyone in this audience who hasnt been touched by this issue either at home, people you work with are people youre close to . Ive never been audience for a single hand was ever raised. Everybody understands the issue of how devastating it can be. Thats the space we really need attention. [applause] a bunch of questions about zero dark 30. What do you make of the controversy over zero dark 30, lawmakers have criticized the known for its depiction of torture . Welcome i had the opportunity to introduce captain niccolo and ill say what i said to that audience. First of all, its a movie. You need to understand what that means. Theres a lot of Poetic License and artform and this is not a documentary. Obviously it is reallife events that have been in my view is they wanted to tell the story of what transpired over a decade that ultimately led to the successful apprehension and the killing of osama bin laden. Part of that story involved in hand to interrogation tape needs and you saw them on the film. , suggested is futile that tenure story it might have even been a greater criticism for disregarding some years. It was also clear as i saw it, and ive watched a couple time. In my view, the films that ultimately the reason we were able to find out the courier was a lot of reason, some of it purely accidental. Some of it was incredible americans whose names on a vessel and ill hook it every morning to go to work to keep us safe, to stare at computer screens, trolling for data could give us information to keep us safer. That film celebrates the incredible hard work that gets done by people whose names and faces will never ever know. So put aside whether you think is a good movie or a bad movie. Ill leave it to critics and writers at the oscars. But whether captain bigelow try to make historians hobart lives of American People, she achieved that goal. [applause] you mention the movie Rating System. Sensor and a place dedicated to transparency, could you address secrecy about the songwriting process in which you favor bringing that in to the open, including more transparency about the people making decisions and how those determinations are made . Nothing static about it. It actually goes even further back. The first head of the mpa was a fellow by the name of hayes and not go to eric johnson and then it was jack for many years and dan glickman and myself. This was an effort to get away jurisdictions have corroborating stories comest you can imagine him trying to produce a product that had a National Audience tailoring to various markets around the country. So the idea was to, but the national Rating System to try and provide that guidance for people along the way. Obviously it goes back to the haze rules that seem almost comical today for what they were in the 1920s coming along as to what we accept as a 21st century audience. Theres nothing concrete about this. You make judgments based on what public mood and attitude and sensibilities i received a forwarded en masse at the rating board do and still does. I am on the appeals board so when producers and directors appeal of reading along the way. So are constantly examining are we doing this as well as we can . Are never going to have it perfectly well. Forget it the interNational Audience. A domestic audience has very different ideas of what a success to pull her unacceptable. So to try and come up with the best you can sue people have as much information to make the decision i mentioned earlier. We stayed away from advertising because you can imagine what that would provoke an invite. These are people who come from what we call families across the country to represent geographically the kinds of views might be represented very serious for some different days. Economic backgrounds that are not from one set or another. You never had that perfectly right either. We passed over the years the American Public, how are they doing . Most recently a couple years ago before the most recent incidents occurred and it may change what happened now in newtown for aurora. I cant tell you that. Best of a year or so ago, when asked the question, what do you feel about the Rating System . The numbers were very high, about 70 of people having a favorable response about the use of the reading system to make decisions. So what does a pretty good job in a difficult space to represent values and ideals of the people as diverse as we are. You talked a good deal about the Chinese Market and how its expanding. As the mba working with the government to allow for release of additional American Films and especially noncensored American Films . Sure. For many years laments are not just us, it is global. Only 20 foreign films including around could be screened in the Chinese Market them as a result of a chip eto, World Trade Organization case negotiation of a trade office did a terrific job, were able to increase to 20 to 34. Obviously china decides that its going to allow the viewing public to see and said they do control that and thats great surprise. They have their own standards of what they assert that to allow to be show in their theaters. I mention in my remarks that what has happened is despite the size of the country, very few theaters in china. Recently the chinese decided this is something they want to provide for their consumers and build in opening up 10 new screened today in the country to the point where they have 11,000 a few sicko was a handful. So were working on it all the time, going back and forth then again there some issues that come up, but we think it is an opportunity and i say this in a parochial sense, but our country has benefited tremendously over the years because of an american film industry. It doesnt mean every film are necessarily proud of. I was attending one of these festivals in australia, first trip to that country in an individual who is in the business started out by saying, i have a strong disagreement with your country and foreign policy. You kind of hear that to some degree of certain places. They want said i want to say i know few other nations to not only tolerated and industry examine, ridicule, tack to challenge public and private institutions as you do in the United States and to top it off he goes in the words for doing it. He said as much as i get upset with some of your policies, no other nation in the world celebrates the freedom of speech and the welcoming of ideas. We had an idea tonight other night for George Stevens, George Stevens junior, a rich tradition this in straight spent most of his life in washington. As a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s when George Stevens is the head of the film and Television Division under edward r. Murrow in the kennedy years they produced 300 documentaries a year. I remember way way up in the not villages on the border with haiti, getting documentaries because there is no electricity, putting up a sheet to screen one of George Stephenson documentary. Many of them are not flattering. Her numbers show a film about the nine, but i remember the audience in a remote village getting an appreciation we werent afraid to to talk about ourselves and how were all trying to get that better. Kathryn bigelow, you know, what was done with lincoln, in a way that probably more people know about the 13th amendment today as a result of that film the world over in a sense. It is a remarkable contribution and the idea we can show and demonstrate who we are out to be welcomed to come us so well continue working to get more product and because they believe to see what remaking and its good for us to have that opportunity. The transfer has backed copyrights for works decades ago. The question asked of possible pu