What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
Film lovers are sick people.
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.