I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
I've done quite a few big American films.
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.