The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.
For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson... I love American movies, but I love European movies, too, and I want to do both.
My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
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.
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.
I'm from a little village in the south of Holland where there was nothing to do but watch American movies and television - I grew up with The 'A-Team,' 'Charlie's Angels,' and 'Edward Scissorhands.'
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.