Word: hollande
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...Basically coming to the United States when you're 47 or 48, it is impossible to transform yourself completely into an American. On the other hand the United States to me is an extremely inspiring, challenging, a country that makes you think every day - in contrast to Holland. I was never really interested in Dutch politics, because they were so gray. Everything was OK, and nothing was really good and nothing was really...
...course it is a country where basically every step it makes has deep impact on the rest of the world, which you cannot say of Holland...
...feel any regret about leaving Holland and going for the big American budgets and stars...
...time I left Holland my chances to make decent movies had been reduced to 10%, I think, because of the effect that these movies had had on the committees that were giving the money. My departure had nothing to do with me being seduced into working in the United States. It was more a flight - and trying not to drown in the sea - to be able to do movies I liked instead of being forced by the Dutch to make movies they liked...
...have made what I think is your best movie, Black Book, and you have done that by going back to Holland. Does that irony strike...