India, Aug. 12 -- A ction legend Jackie Chan believes the golden era of Hollywood is behind us. Speaking at the 78th Locarno Film Festival recently, where he was honoured with the Career Leopard award, the star said big studios today are "obsessed with money" and stifling creativity. "I think the old movies are better than today," Chan told the audience during an interactive session. He added, "Right now, a lot of big studios, they're not filmmakers, they're business guys. They invest 40 million and think, 'How can I get it back?'. It's very difficult to make a good movie now." Chan revealed he had nearly walked away from Hollywood in the early 2000s after feeling disconnected from American audiences and dissatisfied with the scripts he was offered. "Rush Hour (1998) was the last try. If it doesn't succeed, then I finish," he said. While the film had budget limitations and smaller action sequences, its success changed his mind, and, he believes, "changed the culture". The Hong Kong-born actor, who rose to fame in Chinese cinema in the '80s before breaking into Hollywood with Rumble in the Bronx (1995), Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon (2000), said his career in the West was driven by a desire to "be a cross-cultural bridge between the US and China". HTC...