Theo Panayides, film critic Quotes

create your own personalised little world, reflecting your particular tastes ; the concept of a communal lifestyle, a shared culture acting as a societal glue, is becoming increasingly obsolete.

in a way they are disposable.

Watching films in a cinema is in many ways like going to school. You sit where you're told, surrounded by others, all of you there for a common purpose. You're not allowed to talk, just listen quietly. You might not believe what you see and hear, but only a troublemaker would question it out loud. The only difference is you can walk out - but you're immediately conspicuous if you do so, and people give you dirty looks if you make any noise.

Yanks don't seem to realise how much of a symbol their country is, how reflexively and unthinkingly foreigners use it to assign blame or take random pot-shots: it's like when you're at school and make fun of the teachers, giving them unseen peccadilos and lurid home lives. Suddenly the teacher was humanised, made 'one of us', struck by a real-life tragedy; for the first time, we felt protective of America....