THE QUIET AMERICAN Movie Interview by Dr Kuma © 2005 PHASE9 ENTERTAINMENT

Michael Caine who plays the journalist Thomas Fowler answers questions on the movie with director Philip Noyce at the London Press Conference. Did you meet Graham Greene? MICHAEL CAINE: Yes, I did. Although he hated everything he’d seen of his film-wise, he was a very interesting man. Strangely I was a soldier in Korea and meeting Graham Greene was a revelation, in the fact that he’s recommended that a young Caine didn’t go there - although he obviously felt passionately about the place himself. As regards the character of Thomas Fowler, that kind of man still exists today - in fact you could cast George W Bush as Fowler right now. I believe you had a hand in getting the film released? MICHAEL CAINE: The movie sat on a shelf for ages and was going to be lost forever, I felt very strongly about the film and phoned up Harvey Weinstein personally and asked him to release the picture. I thought it might have Oscar potential so I said: “Hey, I’m nearly 70 - I won’t get too many chances again!” PHILIP NOYCE: It was a struggle to get funding for this film as the script was around for some time. How did the positive reaction and reviews come about? MICHAEL CAINE: We took the movie to Toronto [Canada]. If it had had bad press it would've been buried before January and the Oscar nominations, if successful… it could make the list. It comes across as an anti-American movie… MICHAEL CAINE: I didn’t want to make an anti-American movie - I love America and live there - but I did want to show how America became involved, leading up to the Vietnam War. Continued on page 2

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