It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

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

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

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.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

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.