To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.
When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.
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.
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.
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.