Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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 didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
I always wanted to be in movies.