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I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I'm really drawn to European films.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

I'd like to do one European film a year.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.