Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
There's nothing more American than movies.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.