00:00I wanted to talk a little bit about China because we've seen some of the issues flare
00:07up lately this battle between commerce and free speech and appeasing the Chinese government and
00:12I'm curious where you guys think the limit on that is for Hollywood films and what you're
00:19willing to do to stay in that market and it's come up with Mulan recently it did first of all
00:26for Mulan doesn't work in China we have a problem but my feeling is that first of all free speech is
00:35an important component of our society certainly and folks ought to be able to say what they want
00:40to say and I can't speak for what Yifei says in China and we didn't know about it what she was
00:46going to say and that's up to them we try to be non-political apolitical when it comes to all this
00:52stuff is just too important the whole there's always an issue somewhere in the world and
00:57China happens to be a very very big market but it's not the only market where there have been
01:01issues the only thing I have said to the folks that work with me is that keep in mind that when you
01:08speak they don't quote you because like for me it wouldn't be quoted because I'm Alan Horn they don't
01:16care about Alan Horn they care about me as long as I have this job and the second I don't I whatever
01:21I say will be quoted anyway it just so I say to people remember that you are what you do and that's
01:30what will be reported and that carries with it a certain responsibility to at least be aware that that
01:36occurs and to be sensible and and think before you speak especially on social media does it bother you
01:44that that you the movies can't offend China no I mean I there's places all over the world as we say
01:51where not hard to offend somebody somewhere and I didn't say they can't they they did so people will
02:02say what they will say for us we just say look we're in the movie business and we're making movies
02:07that are designed to be seen by an appreciative hopefully audience that will enjoy our movie
02:14it's the entertainment industry and want them to go out and see our movie and have a good time
02:20we're not we don't wish to be political and to get dragged into a political discussion
02:25I would argue is sort of inherently unfair it's not what we do we're not politicians it's not what we
02:31do we're not a governmental organization we're making movies yeah I think there's also a difference
02:36between pandering and cultural sensitivity you know there's a big spotlight on China because of
02:41its size because of its glowing growing global dominance and because of the limitations in press
02:48and freedoms in the country but Malaysia other parts of the world India there are many times when we've
02:53been censoring movies for years just to address the concerns social and cultural of individual
02:59markets when you do it in China it becomes pandering but I mean I think Jim's point is the right
03:05one which is we run a business you know we have to be sensitive to important markets
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