What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

There is a certain quantity of dubious caviar on the market. That necessitates an effort by importing countries.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.