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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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 loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.
I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
I've done quite a few big American films.
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
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