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Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

I've done quite a few big American films.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

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.

Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.