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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've done quite a few big American films.
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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.
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.