I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.