makes it all worthwhile

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2005)

In a world that every day becomes more mired in tragedy, from selfish acts of terror to crippling natural disasters, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that what I do matters. How can one take any pride in making movies while people offer their lives to help others?
Then, once in a while, I read comments like those about this picture. As I run down the list, I see the many ways in which this picture has touched the lives of so many of you, on so many levels. Here is a story that is truly priceless in its timelessness, a movie that really did make a difference, a movie that reaches so broadly that it embraces virtually everyone. A picture that gives so much to its audience.
This picture succeeds in taking us away to another place, a place of innocence and nobility, of honour and love; a place that grows ever distant from us. For that, Rob Reiner and William Goldman, thank you. For the last eighteen years of having this picture to escape to, thank you.
But most importantly, for restoring my faith in the importance of this business, thank you. I only hope I can contribute to something as meaningful somewhere along the way.