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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

There's nothing more American than movies.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.