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Nice sunny day and the only chance of a
shower for the rest of the work week

might be late Thursday or Thursday
night.

Get ready for the second coming of Air
Jordan. It's primary day and the polls

are open in New York City.

Voters are deciding among about 250
candidates.

Giants lose their opener in Monday Night
Football in Denver.

Yankees and Red Sox wash down in the
Bronx. How many sugar?

Good morning. 64 degrees Tuesday,
September 11.

It's 8.52 here in New York. We
understand that there has been a plane

crash on the southern tip of Manhattan.
You're looking at the World Trade

Center.

i was just about to go away out of out
of town for the uh that day and i my

flight was cancelled i went back
downtown and um

and already checkpoints have been set up
in canal street and so on i went through

and got home and my i lived about nine
blocks north of the uh

world trade center i had my television
big Big

screen television to my left and I had
the big picture window And

when I saw the South Tower start to go
down I had to

look at the television to confirm what I
was seeing out my window with my own

eyes It was unreal. It was surreal

And then ran like hell, thank God.

I'm 69, but I can still run.

You didn't know what the future would
be.

It was so bad that you couldn't even
comprehend the enormity of it.

Well, that's not the right word. I guess
it was just, you know.

Tribeca was one of those neighborhoods
that was sealed off.

Which meant no one was coming back
anytime soon.

If ever.

Businesses closed.

The streets emptied.

People scattered.

The air was toxic.

And it would take years to understand
what it was doing to people.

It wasn't just the grief for the nearly
3,000 who died that day.

It was a rupture in the geography of the
city.

People were afraid to come downtown.

Bob and I wanted to help we knew we had
to do something

It's crazy thinking it was 25 years ago.

The towers were in our neighborhood.

So at that moment, we were human beings
with hearts broken and our

community torn apart.

And a huge hole in the ground left by
terrorists. What the hell could we do to

fight back?

And what the hell could we do to say,
we're still here, screw you, and we're

going to show you stories, and we're
going to do something, and we are loud

and proud.

We just did it. And I think more of us
have to

do.

In 1989, Jane and I started the Tribeca
Film Center.

If you looked left out of my office
window, you could see the towers.

They were always there.

Which means after a while, you just
stopped noticing them.

And then, one day, they were gone.

People needed to come together, and
that's what art does.

It unites us.

It pushes back against the things that
try to tear us apart.

When freedom is under such attack,
storytellers need to

gather in response.

It's creating an environment where
people feel safe to tell their story,

whatever their story is.

I fell in love with New York through the
movies, and now New York needed the

movies to recover.

The fuck are you smiling about?

To me, New York is the most cinematic
city in the world.

It can be romantic, gritty, lonely,
desperate,

or ready to explode.

The city's famous for the big stuff.

The skyline, the bridges, the landmarks
everybody recognizes.

But I always thought the places that got
the least attention were the most

interesting. Hey!

I'm walking here!

Well, look, George.

You hear that, New York? We don't quit!

Now, how do you like that?

Two and a half miles is as wide as this
cacophony gets.

You see the world through someone else's
eyes.

You start to understand how other people
see things.

I'm as mad as hell! I'm not gonna take
this anymore!

And somewhere in there, your perspective
shifts.

I personally figured I was watching
something that somebody else would never

see again in the world. Thought it was
once in a lifetime.

And no matter what the city does to us,
we always come back to it.

I love this town!

The site selected for the Trade Center
was an old section of Manhattan's Lower

West Side.

The area housed a great number of small
businesses, but the predominance of

electronic stores caused it to be known
as Radio Row.

In 1966, demolition began.

In all, 164 buildings had to be torn
down, and generations of power,

telephone, gas, steam, and water lines
had to be rerouted.

More than 250,000 people live here in
the neighborhoods that surround the site

where the Twin Towers once stood.

This area is a ghost town, totally
closed to the public. There isn't even

electricity in many of these buildings
right now.

I wish things were normal just so we
didn't have to think about it. I wish we

could just go to a movie theater and
watch movies, but none are open. I wish,

you know, it's hard.

It was devastation downtown.

in terms of the restaurants and the
businesses.

We had a lot of friends that worked as
waiters and people that ran clubs.

I mean, it was just terrible down there.
It was dying.

We started organizing these events
called Dinner Downtown.

I had this idea of inviting people to
come to these dinners.

My goal was have a meal, save a job.

They kept growing in size.

You got assigned with like four other
celebrities to go to a restaurant and

you're going to have dinner in one
restaurant and then go to another place

to have dessert.

There was like 30 teams or some crazy
thing.

It puts smiles on people's faces.

You can't underestimate the power of
that.

Not only to rejuvenate the neighborhood,
but to lift people's spirits in a

genuine fucking way.

At one dinner downtown, there was this
Con Ed worker who had lost his son

sitting next to me.

He said he felt like it was finally okay
to leave the house to do something

besides mourn.

That was in November 2001.

Dozens of New York notables are trying
to jumpstart the tourism industry with a

$40 million advertising campaign.

If it's not such a big deal, why don't
you be the turkey? You want me to be the

turkey? Yeah, come on.

We were doing everything we could think
of to get New York to feel like New York

again.

We thought, how do we give our community
something to look forward to?

Could we give our neighbors a new
memory?

Bob and I talked about doing a film
festival, but this felt like the right

time.

Tribeca Film Festival is a unique
opportunity for people to join together

in the downtown community to share their
loves of cinema.

And if anybody could do this, it's Bob
De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.

I thought it was a great idea.

They had a vision.

You don't go into battle without having
a strategy or a plan, and they had that.

And I've seen a lot of things start and
just crumble.

This did not.

This is the time to do it. It's very
important for many reasons, many obvious

reasons. And so let's do it.

The festival was kind of an act of
defiance.

We had 120 days,

1,300 volunteers, no money, no
blueprint, just an idea and a

neighborhood that needed people back in
it.

This wasn't just about movies. It was
about whether downtown was coming back.

Some of the toughest things were
figuring out what movie theaters we

could go into. We had to go in wearing
hazmat suits.

We had to get the city on board,
business leaders, politicians.

Mike Bloomberg showed up first just as a
supporter, then as the mayor.

Nobody slept much.

You looked out the window, it was still
smoking.

That kept things in perspective.

Our city had been attacked.

It felt like this is what you had to do.

There was this mantra that we had.

Whenever people would get upset about
something or complain about something or

whatever it was, we'd say, look left.

That's why we're doing it.

We weren't sure how it would feel to go
from a recovery operation in lower

Manhattan to suddenly screening movies.

We invited Nelson Mandela to open the
first festival.

He really gave us a way forward.

Our goal was to celebrate the power of
filmmaking, but more importantly, to

revitalize our neighborhood that was
devastated on September 11th.

The mission of the film festival is
simple, to bring 50,000 people to Lower

Manhattan over the next four days, to
use the power of filmmaking not only to

entertain, but also to rebuild our city.

We invite everyone to come and join us.

This neighborhood in particular is, even
before September, was just sort of being

born, and now it needs all this healing.
So I think it's sort of a perfect thing

they've done.

You know, the great thing about the
movie business is that it draws crowds.

So when you have a film festival, you
know, you're going to have people down

in the neighborhood, and that's going to
help all of the restaurants and all of

the smaller businesses.

I mean, live down here, I saw firsthand
just how devastated the neighborhood

was. So when Jane and Bob called about
the festival, it was a no-brainer to

jump in and do whatever they asked me to
do. And that's what our community

needed, you know, to be in a room
laughing and crying together.

That first year was important to have a
comedy because you wanted to laugh.

If you laughed, your endorphins come
out, and then you feel better.

You just go.

Okay. I'll be back.

Ooh, I'm really scared.

I've been to a lot of film festivals.

I love them and I believe in them. And
I've seen it firsthand time and time

again, what a fabulous vitamin B12
injection to the buttock they can be to

any area, any city, any town.

Now there's, you know, obviously the
neighborhood's really rejuvenated.

More people are walking up and down the
streets than I've ever seen in months.

People seem to be, you know, having a
good time, talking about movies,

thinking about the neighborhood, which
is really the whole point of it.

The thing that Bob and Jane really did.

was to say to people, listen, yes, this
happened.

We're not afraid.

Downtown will not just be revitalized,
but it will be reinvigorated.

Part of the responsibility that Bob and
Jane took on was saying quite

loudly, we are not going to take this
lying down.

We're going to bring downtown back.

I lived downtown.

We had started work on a documentary
about 9-11, and I wanted Bob, who was

sort of the unofficial mayor of Tribeca,
to be the front person for it. It's hard

to weigh what happened on September
11th. But then he and Jane came up with

the idea of doing a film festival
downtown, and I don't know anybody who

could say no to Bob De Niro.

Graydon Carter had the idea of doing a
Vanity Fair party at the courthouse.

And that's kind of when the festival
felt real, like, oh my God, we've really

done something. Look, it's real.

At the event, if anybody needed to know
where the bathrooms were, they'd ask any

nearby billionaire, because the
billionaires had all had trials in the

building and knew exactly where the
men's rooms were.

The Tribeca Film Festival, that was the
beginning of putting the city back

together.

Now it's part of the...

cultural schedule of the city the
festival started as a reaction to 9 11

but it was also the birth of something
very special what can we do to keep our

neighborhood alive and moving forward

we all had different

visions of cinema jane had a vision bob
had a vision i had a vision

Marty Scorsese was involved at the
beginning.

In fact, Marty began supplying films for
retrospectives and the idea that a film

festival would be new films, but also
classic films, silent films, be all

kinds of cinema.

This was part of what a film festival is
supposed to be and what Tribeca became.

For me...

this Manhattan is the universe.

And so everything I see and everything I
react to is filtered through my

experience in the city.

Bob, you know that when we were
downtown, because we kind of knew each

other when I think we were 16.

Where did you hang out?

Two blocks south of where you were,
right where we shot, actually, at 10

Manor Street, Mulberry Street, that
area.

No matter what the immigrant group is,
the immigrant experience, I think it's

generally the same pattern.

Who are we in this country?

You know, what are we?

It's a great experiment. Will it
continue?

You know, can we make it continue?

You've seen the pictures of me and
Fellini and Sergio Leone.

Oh, my God, that's great.

My parents at a certain point had to be
moved from Elizabeth Street because they

couldn't go up and down the stairs
anymore, so they got them an apartment

in an elevator building on 19th Street
and 3rd

Avenue, remember?

The first time I visited the apartment,
Sergio was with me. I said, this is a

grand occasion. I said, maybe the first
time you're visiting the apartment.

And my mother made all this food for
him.

She liked him, said he was a very good
eater.

But at that time, this place, the only
excellent restaurant, for example, and

place was the Odeon.

Everything else was dead empty.

There was nothing here except the Odeon.

I stayed here for quite a while.

You know, and as we did, it became more
lively, places opened, people started to

move down here.

So the place started to come together.

I was here at the time of where it was
just the very, very beginning of

the development of the place, put it
that way.

You know, where people actually started
to be encouraged to come here and also

to create it.

When I first moved here, and I would
say, I was living in Tribeca, and people

would say to me, I thought you moved to
New York. And I'd say, I have moved to

New York.

It's Tribeca.

It's the triangle below Canal Street.

If you look at a map of lower Manhattan
in the early 1800s, this place was

mostly open fields, right at the edge of
the city.

The closeness to the water, the
accessibility of all the piers, the

wholesale food market, all those things
drove Tribeca to become what it

was. And this area became this actually,
you know, rather beautiful little

industrial village in the 70s. There was
still a certain amount of industry,

but not enough to really keep it going.

As artists began to be priced out of
Soho, they trickled down

below Canal Street and into this
industrial area that was weirdly off the

radar. There were very few people.

I mean, it was bleak.

If you think of Marty's film, After
Hours, it was like that.

But there was a lot of...

freedom and you know you can hang
yourself with it or you can find it to

be liberating tribeca became a place
where you could live and work in the

same room where young families moved
into former factories like so much in

new york it wasn't designed that way it
just worked

the space that i remember

particularly during the day was all
trucking Trucks everywhere then at

night. It was dead empty.

It was really good for stealing hubcaps
or Any kind of sex that you wanted

or like drugs that was you couldn't
nobody could see anything Yeah, I'm done

before after-hours. So try Becca all of
a sudden now is like the Elysian Fields.

I mean well I Said I know guys used to
steal hubcaps take cars from here. What

is it?

Not that I did. I'm just saying.

In this corner of New York City between
the Wall Street Traders and the Soho Art

Galleries, De Niro is building a film
community, a place for ideas, talent,

and money can get together outside of
Hollywood.

When I saw this building, I said it
would be nice to have a place that would

have everything like a restaurant, a
screening room, especially this one,

which is a state-of-the-art screening
room.

Don't ask me all the details, but I know
it is, where a lot of people would be

brought together in film, creative
people who, just by being together,

ideas would come up and projects and so
on that we don't even know what they

would be. I mean, the whole thing will
take on a life of its own.

Gene and I started... Working together,
I saw this building and I thought, well,

gee, it'd be great if we could do
something.

It was my dream.

And we actually got it done.

I grew up in the village a few blocks
north.

In the late 70s, I was looking around
for gym space to train for Raging Bull.

That's when I kind of fell for the
neighborhood.

The neighborhood was the Mercantile and
Butter and Egg District.

This building was the former Martinson
Coffee and Tetley Tea Building.

If you walked by this block, it really
did smell of coffee roasting.

If you walked a little further south,
you got to the Nut District.

The whole point was to build a place for
independent film in New York.

People from LA always said, New York's a
nice place to visit. Wouldn't want to

live there. Well, that was how it went
for me.

LA's a nice place to visit. I wouldn't
want to live there.

We wanted to be down here. It was more
unique, special.

This building seemed perfect.

What we did is take a manufacturing
building that was actually for physical

manufacturing and turn it into a place
of...

creating and manufacturing stories and
creativity.

The first festival was only four days.

And then we had to immediately start the
second festival.

It is my pleasure to announce the second
annual Tribeca Film Festival will

be returning to Lower Manhattan this
spring.

And slowly it began to have this kind of
celebrity aura to it.

It went from this emotional 9-11
experience to becoming a very valid

festival.

Tribeca helped give respect to
documentaries.

It became part of the business.

Find out who made it. Find out what else
they've done. Here's a name you never

heard of before.

Virunga is a story about a British oil
company that was illegally exploring for

oil within a national park.

There was a lot of people that didn't
want this film to see the light of day.

A year after the film... launched at
Tribeca, Soko International, formerly

withdrew from the Virunga National Park.

And then people started talking about
the film as an awards contender.

There's a contingent of filmmakers you
know will show up at Tribeca. They're

the cream of the crop of film festival
talent.

Taxi to the Dark Side, it had the
premiere at Tribeca, went on to win the

Oscars.

I just thought that this would be a
helpful time for us all to, like, now

that the first screenings are up, to
actually look at it day by day.

Are we kind of front-loading things that
we think are impactful?

Does every day have a good balance?

I think we've really become a discovery
festival.

It's the part of the job that I think is
the most exciting, is that we could

potentially be changing someone's life,
changing culture.

putting fingerprints on what the film
culture in this country looks like.

Voice of the Rainbow, Mouthful of Gold,
The Long Haul, those are kind of the

ones I see on this list that could go
into a 250 to 350 size.

An iconic class could fill one of those
Sunday slots.

Hi, my name is Damien Chazelle. I'm the
writer and director of Guy and Madeline

on a Park Bench, and this is my first
Tribeca Film Festival.

One of my first years, we saw Damien
Chazelle's first film, Guy and Madeline

on a Park Bench.

He's gone on to such incredible success
since then.

It's sort of mind-boggling. There's a
whole lot of filmmakers that have

started here.

Ryan Coogler had his first short here,
which was called Locks.

We chose writer-director Nia DaCosta's
Little Woods.

Nia DaCosta, she's a wonderful filmmaker
that has since completely blown up.

Oh, wow.

Winning something like that on your
first film is so...

impactful. It makes people pay
attention.

That's one of the things I really love
about Tribeca is that they genuinely are

focused in expanding the kinds of films
that we get to see and from different

kinds of people.

My career was made there because that's
where I sold my film, and that really

changed sort of my trajectory.

We just kept doing what we set out to
do, finding new voices, new ways to tell

stories. different perspectives, people
with something to say.

We'd like to present the Founders Award
for Best Narrative Feature. The winner

will receive $25,000, as well as an Art
Award valued at $50,000.

The Art Awards program is something that
Jane conceived of in the very early days

because we are a competitive festival.

Every year, approximately 10 artists
contribute original artwork from their

collection or something that they make
for the festival, and it serves as a

filmmaker prize.

So it's really one art form celebrating
another.

Viable piece of art, it's a nice thing
to give to somebody.

It grows with them.

I never had a sense of community in my
life.

To be a part of the Tribeca Film
Festival and to be a part of what it did

for other people, I was very proud to be
part of that.

How's it going? How you doing?

When I first started the festival,

Most of the films we showed were on like
35 or 16 millimeter.

When digital came along, that kind of
opened up the ability to make films for

so many more people.

The more people who are making films,
the more kind of stories that are being

told, the more different types of
stories you're going to get.

Part of what a festival does is bring
people together to watch all kinds of

films and have discussions afterwards
and hear what a filmmaker was thinking

and engage in some real interesting
conversations.

That night was the happiest moment of my
life.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up.

for the director and cast of the
godfather and the godfather part two

i've been asked by big shots how do you
make a film that is successful

financially and also artistically and i
i said to him risk

Good evening everyone and welcome to the
25th Tribeca Festival.

It's hard to believe that it's been half
a century since the brilliant Martin

Scorsese delivered us Taxi Driver.

They

are

joined here tonight by other incredible
artists.

at the heart of Taxi Driver, Jodie
Foster and Paul Schrader.

Jodie was only 12 years old when she
starred in Taxi Driver and Paul, the

extraordinary screenwriter who brought
Taxi Driver to life.

Please join me in welcoming Martin
Scorsese, Robert De Niro,

Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, and W. Elmo
Bell.

Taxi Driver is about a disaffected young
man who has problems connecting

romantically with women and hyper
focuses on politicians in the wrong ways

and wants to be the hero in his own
story. Why do you think this is relevant

today?

There was something absolutely 100% true
and authentic about the

character's disaffection and loneliness
that I didn't really understand but that

I knew was really true.

Mr. Scorsese, what do you think? Why has
this film endured?

When I saw the cab, I began to realize
that it's that arc of despair.

New York in the summer has got great
steam.

The steam comes up, and the cab came
through. It's, oh, my God. Look at that.

Somebody said, oh, it's supposed to be
the hell metaphor. I wasn't making a

metaphor. It's the cab coming through
the steam.

No? Really, really, it was.

Can we spare some words for that era of
New York City and what it was like to

film in that era?

There was something in the shoot of the
film that you could feel in the

temperature. You could feel a kind of
violence all around you, and you could

taste it in a way. I mean, it was the
city.

It was falling apart.

Really was falling apart.

Sitting there in the village saying,
this is the greatest fucking place on

Earth.

It really was.

So I'm not going to be able to leave
here alive if I don't ask about one

scene in particular from Taxi Driver.

Do you remember?

I think so.

Would you happen to remember what the
famous line from that scene is?

Yes, I know it.

Are you talking to me?

I'll add one more thing.

I'm the only one here.

That's the point. That was the point.
You're right.

It didn't matter how much we

expanded or grew.

We never forgot where we came from.

You're opening up the festival this year
with a movie, United 93, which of course

tells the story of the flight that
crashed in Pennsylvania.

You couldn't think of not opening the
festival with the movie. Let's put it

that way.

We invited all the families to come to
the festival.

They never felt part of the national
grief.

That was for the Pentagon, and it was
for New York.

They didn't talk about United 93.

This is a movie to see to be strong.

To be strong. Not to be afraid of
nobody.

There were sobs in the theater.

It was people grieving.

We were there for each other,
collectively, singularly.

It harkens back to why we built the
festival in the first place.

Tribeca is not actually a triangle.

It's a quadrilateral.

That speaks to exactly what Tribeca is.

It's just kind of a little tilted, a
little quirky, a little surprising,

unexpected.

It isn't just borders on a map.

It's a feeling.

It's a vibe.

At the heart, we are about a community
and bringing people together.

And there's nothing like a New York
audience because it's as diverse as

every point of view that can exist in
the world. It's here in New York.

I feel like we're an audience festival.

That first festival it was about how
many people we could bring downtown.

That first year David Bowie played.

Music became part of the festival

going forward because it was a way to
celebrate and we needed to start to feel

good again.

Elton John performed, and he played your
song and dedicated it to New York City.

This one's for you with my love.

Now we have Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus
coming, and we had Nas come with his

time-ismatic film.

Nas is New York.

Hip-hop is New York.

Opening the Tribeca Film Festival,
Robert De Niro comes out.

and introduces the film. This film tells
the story of the making of an artist and

the making of an album here in our
hometown.

It was a surreal moment, to say the
least.

I want to thank Robert De Niro.

He plays me in all his movies.

Artists in the city, we're like born
with this obligation to represent New

York. You have to express it in your
art.

I love you.

Governor Cuomo just announced the first
confirmed case in New York City. The

number of cases has climbed to 5,000.
Coronavirus crisis in the nation's

largest city is exploding.

Bars, restaurants, entertainment venues
shut down in an attempt to slow the

rapidly spreading virus.

In March of 2020, everything stopped.

New York shut down.

Almost overnight.

Theaters went dark.

Streets were empty.

We were one of the first festivals that
had to pause during COVID.

I was struck by the fact that we started
the festival to bring people

together. And COVID, we couldn't touch
each other.

Tribeca is now helping New York
rejuvenate post-COVID.

We've been through a grueling year, and
it's been devastating, frustrating, at

times frightening.

Today, we're thrilled to be able to
bring the Tribeca Film Festival to all

five boroughs as a tribute to
storytelling and cultural richness of

every part of New York.

Tribeca will be the first in-person film
festival to take place in all of North

America since the pandemic began over a
year ago.

Well, first of all, congratulations.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

John Chu had one of his early short
films here at Tribeca.

This is where we started.

When we came here for the first time, we
were wide-eyed and innocent, within the

heights being there.

It couldn't have been more full circle
for us.

We were back and it was this community
in Washington Heights where we premiered

it, where we shot the movie.

So to come back there after being locked
down, to be outside, just felt like a

return to not just home, but to
normalcy.

It was like breathing air again.

You just saw people come back and just
for an hour or two, they were able to

forget everything going on in the world
and in their lives.

We bought the entertainment that was
originally what Tribeca was all about.

It was amazing to see just New Yorkers
being New Yorkers again.

Film has the ability to take people out
of the world they live in and show them

other things.

That's, for me, the beauty of the arts.

You are able to share.

This is what I think, and this is who I
am. Who am I doing downtown? I never

come downtown.

I hate downtown.

Artists reveal certain truths that some
people are afraid to face, and that's

why they're artists.

At the end of the day, artists are just
trying to point out what's going on.

Art is inclusive. It brings people
together.

Tonight, art looks for truth.

Art embraces diversity, and that's why
art is a...

is a threat that's why we are a threat
to autocrats and fascists

and this isn't just an american problem
it's a global one

unlike a film we can't just all sit back
and watch we have to act

and we have to act now another suspected
explosive was found in the mail that

package sent to the tribeca offices of
actor robert de niro Bob is really

fearless in what he's willing to take
on.

I feel betrayed by my country.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but it
does need to return to the values that

gave us our strength and humanity.

And particularly proud of him and his
voice as an independent, free

person speaking about the situation that
we're living in.

Someone like Bob, when he uses his
words, can bring people's attention to

certain issues.

You're always about lifting up everybody
around you. Yeah, of course.

Why is that?

You have to.

You have to lift people up. Why? You
have to bring them together.

Period.

You can't divide people.

You can't win that way.

It's a no-win situation.

We give out an award that the late Paula
Weinstein started in honor of Harry

Belafonte for artists and activism.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

This year, we're giving the Belafonte
Award to Bruce Springsteen.

He's not afraid to fight back with his
words, his music, and about what's been

going on in this country.

This past winter, federal troops brought
death and terror to the streets of

Minneapolis.

Bruce is exactly the right person to
write that lament, Streets of

Minneapolis, right at the moment when we
all needed to hear it.

America tells its story in cinema.

Cinema is where the American dream was
encoded before it was exported.

And what followed?

American music.

Johnny Cash was America.

Aretha Franklin was America.

Harry Belafonte was America.

Bruce Springsteen is America.

Some songs manage to change not just the
room that they're recorded in, but they

can change the atmosphere of a time.

And we know how serious you feel, what
you're feeling for your

country. I always work from the inside
out, you know, so you're sitting around

and I'm just pissed off, you know. And,
you know, if art has the chance to shape

culture... Culture shapes politics.

Culture and politics shape the nation.

And that's the business one.

Bruce Springsteen.

As if you didn't know.

If you look through history, the town is
destroyed. People leave it.

They go to another place.

They didn't leave.

Instead, put back in and resurrected,
really, the spirit of the city.

We had done a film, it was Gangs of New
York at the time, and the draft riots

took place right here. And that was one
of the worst riots in American history.

So these cataclysms occur, but it didn't
stop the evolution.

I mean, Tribeca has become a festival
you have to be thinking about in the

festival world wherever you are.

There's an energy downtown.

It's things going on in the streets.

It was a celebration, and it really said
life goes on, and it really said film is

important.

It's like Coney Island for the soul.
That's what the festival is.

And for me, it's always shiny that way.

It's super important to have these film
festivals where people can actually

commune. communicate, and have a
dialogue.

That's what it's about, really.

At film festivals, you're not arguing,
you're listening.

And I think listening is becoming a lost
skill.

The pillars that we've put in place in
terms of artists and activism, hopefully

that's something that can bring people
together for another 25 years.

There are so many of our new colleagues
here that don't remember 9-11.

Some of you weren't even born on 9-11,
2001.

I want to invite all of you to the 9-11
Museum and Memorial.

We'll have a tour.

I've been a part of the museum since the
beginning, and I'm excited about showing

it to you.

square memorial pools, the waterfalls,
right? That's where the towers once

stood.

This is Foundation Hall. And Foundation
Hall is an archaeological site.

So that wall has a lot of importance.

The slurry wall served as a symbol of
resilience after the 9-11 attacks.

We're going through the story of 9-11.

but just as important is also what
happened on 9-12.

People came together.

You suddenly got to know who your
neighbors were that brought the festival

together and the community together.

New Yorkers and the rest of this country
proved that it wasn't about rebuilding

the steel and glass It was about showing
the world what we represent

That we're here for each other and that
we will continue

to go on no matter what

Betty Smith!

There were deserts. I saw fountains. And
like cream, the

waters rise.

And we strolled there together.

We learned to laugh or criticize.

I was dreaming in my dreaming.

God knows a pure view as I surrender.

into my sleeping i commit my dream to
you

Can come to pass through a union We can
turn the

world around we can turn