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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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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
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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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"I was a normal American nerd."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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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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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
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"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
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"In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance."
Age
"In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions."
Film
"The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in."
Age
"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed."
Creativity
"Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money."
Money
"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
"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
"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."
Nation
"Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul."
Soul
"Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making."
Spirit
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