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For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I'm really drawn to European films.

In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.