For me, from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to do genre movies, which didn't make me a very happy person in Germany. They hated me for that. People should have the freedom to do whatever they want and to like whatever they want. You can't regiment that. When you do like the French and try to find new words for American words, you are doing something so silly that the effect will eventually be even worse.
Nobody talks about how much American life has been infiltrated by European culture.
The way Americans live, eat and dress all comes from Europe. Everyone here drinks cappuccinos and no one gets angry about it. All the clothes are made or influenced by European designers. Everyone will go to the new Italian restaurant around the corner and not think twice. Someday, when the world becomes one big global village, everyone will grow up with the same culture and people won't be as different from each other any more.