00:00Jackie Chan says new Hollywood movies lack quality because studios focus too much on money.
00:06They're not filmmakers, they're business guys. Locarno. Jackie Chan told a Q&A audience in
00:12Locarno that he believes the big Hollywood studios are stifling contemporary filmmaking
00:16with what he described as their obsession with money. I think the old movies are better than
00:21today, Chan said. Right now, a lot of big studios, they're not filmmakers, they're business guys.
00:27They invest 40 million and think, how can I get it back? And you can't go over. It's very difficult
00:34to make a good movie now. Chan was speaking with Locarno head Giona Nazaro this morning at a packed
00:40out Q&A session, where he ran through his career credits, telling multiple lucid and highly
00:45entertaining stories about his start in the business, working in Hollywood, and how he
00:49completed many of his most dangerous stunts.
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