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I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I've done quite a few big American films.

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.