This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.