Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.
I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.