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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.

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

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.

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.

Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.