I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.
For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.
As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.
I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.