American Auteurs
NEWSWEEK: Do you fear that international audiences won’t get your movie? JOEL: It’s a little hard to translate, but on the other hand everyone can get the music. Good music doesn’t need translation. Some people will get it, some won’t. At the Cannes premiere, the mostly French audience missed a lot of the humor. JOEL: It’s hard, because so much of it is about specific American things. All of our movies are American in a way....