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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.