Sorry she didn't say Hollywood she said she didn't care who made the movie as long as it wasn't an American. Its right on the DVD.
She also claimed early on that she wouldn't write and American Character into the books because it was about British Children in a British School, except of course for the Bulgarian and French kids in book four.
Not that I give a rip what she thinks, my kids like her stories but I found them alternately creepy & boring.
Uh-huh. Thats my point, you see her saying ‘American’ as a pejorative and snotty dislike of the US. When in fact she simply meant she didnt want an American to direct (and possibly ruin) her very British story. Its your interpretation she is anti-American. Its mine that you are reading far too much into ‘American’. You are reading it literally.
So what if she added foreign characters FOUR books down the line. Authors change their plans as they write.
Why arent you btw raging at Kurt Russell?. Who publicly stated that Scotsman Gerard Butler shouldnt play Snake Plissken in a remake of Escape from New York, because he is not American. Isnt he being xenophobic, bigoted and anti-Scottish/British/European?. Or is it OK when Americans do it?.