What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton, or Inglewood - are a 100% true depiction of that world. But also you have inner-city London, and the foundations are pretty much the same. Especially me, growing up in Southeast London, in Peckham.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.
