The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.