There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I think it would be really fun to film a drama in a foreign country. If the opportunity presents itself, I want to film a Chinese production.
Since most of our films cater to crossover audiences, I think it's time we make films for multilingual viewers.
I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.
Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
