My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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There's nothing more American than movies.
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.
I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.
Movies are different from real life.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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