>> you can just sit down for the rest of your life and watch movies from the '70s. and they're amazing. >> the shakeup of what we were going through in the '70s and the expectations and the stereotypes that we had had about our own nation and the myths that we had swallowed. there was no way that american cinema could not reflect that. >> don't you sell america to me! >> all the movies that came out, they were very inventive and really rich and smart. people were trying for something different. >> it was an extraordinary time. we were all playing off each other, and there was no doubt we were changing things. >> we had all these enormously talented, creative, ambitious filmmakers being given money to go out and make the picture that they wanted to make.