I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.