"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."

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"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."

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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."

Nationality

"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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"Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism."

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"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."

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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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"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."

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"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things."

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"Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making."

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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."

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