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Alternate Names:
Jan Jansen
Height:
5' 8" (1.73 m)
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Personal Quote:
Right now, Hollywood doesn't fit with my artistic sensibilities. I feel that in France and in Europe, there is enormous respect for filmmakers. This doesn't happen in Hollywood. For us, it's hard to shoot there because they do not want what we want. There, all films must be visible to the greatest number. Money rules everything. The studios have abandoned the quality. Everything is smooth, it ...
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Trivia:
Despite directing four science-fiction movies (
RoboCop (1987),
Total Recall (1990),
Starship Troopers (1997) and
Hollow Man (2000)), he has admitted that it is definitely not his favorite genre. He has said that as a European, he understood too little about American issues at the time to make a contemporary American movie, and science-fiction movies were a nice way to avoid that problem.
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