But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
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I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.
Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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