One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
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.
Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.
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