It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.
I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.