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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

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.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.