When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
When we make these movies, you sign up for an experience. It's not just, 'Action! Cut!' There's not that safety in it. It's kind of a dangerous place to be. I mean, it is safe, but it gets personal. It's no longer about saying the lines. It's about really having an experience.
In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
I've done quite a few big American films.
I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
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