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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."
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"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie."
Media
"In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years."
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"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."
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"On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world."
Change
"What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions."
Film
"Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you."
Change
"It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings."
Being
"Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more."
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"But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive."
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"Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money."
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