Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.
I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
Movies don't have borders.
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.
Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.