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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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"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."
"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."
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