Hacker and Price, in Take 10 see the Hollywood dominance as unsurprising, 'a British audience, which might naturally be reluctant to watch foreign films has always welcomed American cinema. This unconscious disposition has been so long standing that the taste of the British audience for film - their cinematic education - has been effectively formed by Hollywood's finely crafted, glamorous entertainment. The result is that, today, a British film, despite its greater relevance for a British audience has little appeal'.

With the British audience's taste being so obviously in favour of American product why should they care if their own film industry is in decline, or indeed in renaissance? John Schlesinger, one of the ten directors interviewed in 'Take 10', says 'I think recently 'British film' has been given a higher profile than the reality it deserves ... I don't think the British as a nation are that interested in 'The Cinema' especially when compared with the US or France'. Truffaut is famously quoted as describing 'Britain' and 'Cinema' as a contradiction in terms.

Another film trend of the 80's was the exodus of British film-makers who didn't wish to struggle within their home country's flailing film-making community. They went mainly to America where their talents were in demand. Alan Parker, a director who was part of this exodus, also interviewed in 'Take 10', says 'anyway, with all those satellites buzzing around in space, soon Britain might not even need a film industry so hopefully they'll stop wondering or caring where it went.'