But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

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.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

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

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.