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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I've done quite a few big American films.

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 make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.