For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

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The quote highlights the speaker's previous misconception about individuals in the film industry. Having interacted with both movie financiers and deal-makers, the speaker initially believed that everyone involved had a genuine desire to create the best possible movies. However, they have now come to realize the naivety of their belief, acknowledging that not everyone shares the same commitment to artistic integrity. The quote implies that in the business of making movies, profit and personal motives often overshadow the goal of creating exceptional cinema.

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