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I've done quite a few big American films.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.