"What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions."

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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."

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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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"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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"I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s."

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