I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.
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History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.
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There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.
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It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.
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People who are deaf or hard of hearing need all the support we can give them.
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Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can analyze what's happening. Of course, most commercial films are controlled by big corporations who have an interest in not doing those films.
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Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.
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The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.
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I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.
