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Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.