The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.

The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

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.

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

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.