Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Movies don't have borders.
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.