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Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

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

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

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