I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I like Ken Loach, Mike Leigh. These are the British filmmakers who haven't sold out, who haven't got hired by Hollywood.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

Just like you can't stop filmmakers. The films will get made, somehow, some way, no matter what's going on, and worldwide.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.