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>> finally we are seeing a little more diversity among the people who are making the decisions about what movies to make and the people who are literally making the movies. they are telling their stories. they are telling stories that no one in hollywood could tell except for them. and the movies are going to be better for it. audiences are already understanding that. ♪ >> there is still something about being told a story. a movie is something that's been really handcrafted. it's a mosaic that's been carefully pieced together. it just creates this opportunity to totally lose yourself. it's a...

Opinions and aunts with mustaches telling me when i should get married and when i should have a baby. at the time it was so annoying. then i realized, i could write a story out of this. >> here, eat some rice. >> i'm good. i'm good. >> i could snap you like a chicken. >> i thought we would be shown in greek church basements, and then i couldn't believe we got released in theaters. >> everyone, this is ian. >> ian! >> they're calling it the little movie that could. "my big fat greek wedding" has been a big fat hit at the box office this summer. >> opa! >> it was the top grossing romantic comedy...

His "creature from the black lagoon ". >> guillermo del toro is an appreciator of the old school movie making. he never lost the 12-year-old geeky fanboy within himself. and i think that's why audiences can relate to his work so much. >> what you're seeing is a lot of directors using established genres to do something that's actually very iddio siosdiosync. he can make a movie like "gravity" that is spectacular that has to be seen on the big screen, but in reality is a very intimate, human movie. >> i know. we're all going to die. everybody knows that. but i'm going to die today.

>> it's not the easiliest film to watch. as no steve mcqueen movie is. he's such a great director, particularly in his ability to present it to you in this really cold reality. which i think ultimately is frightening, but that speaks to how compelling a film steve mcqueen is able to create in tef terms of speaking to the horrors of slavery. >> it's rare that african-american history becomes the subject of mainstream cinema. so it's important not just for its performances and how well-crafted it is, but it's drawing our attention to black history. >> the president doesn't want us to march today...

>> you know, the big part of the fun of the movie was we were robbing banks comedically. when we were done, the giddiness, the exhilaration of that experience was unmatched. >> frank! >> hey, honey. hey. >> what the hell are you doing? >> we're streaking. we're going up through the quad to the gymnasium. >> who's streaking? >> there's -- there's more coming. >> frank, get in the car. >> everybody's doing it. >> now! >> okay. >> just hearing will's name puts a smile on my face. i remember him making "old school" and everybody got that taste of, oh, like, you want to see a [ bleep ] genius on a ...