Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

He'd turned a prison into an opera hall. That's an example of taking what you have and making it into what you want.

I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

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.