There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
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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.
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.
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