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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
In general, I almost always watch foreign films.
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
I haven't done an international film for a long time.