She gave it to her with a big smile and was gone in a flash. Every kid in Cuba knows what the dollar is worth, it is the other currency and there are many things you can only buy with American dollars. Many of your films explore the impact of American cinema on popular culture in Europe and internationally. 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.
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. And so the division between industry-driven films and, due to lack of a better word, independent films is not a national issue but a worldwide phenomenon. 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. For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema.