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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America.
I've done quite a few big American films.
You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.