An article in The Independent offers an interview with Marco Mueller, director of the Venice Film Festival. In it, he mentions Johnny Depp in a discussion of the current "golden age" of British filmmaking:

"The diversity in British films has always been there. On the one hand, you have Exodus by [director] Penny Woolcock who comes from a non-cinema background, while on the other you have Peter Greenaway who is the opposite. And then you have Johnny Depp choosing Pinewood as his own private Hollywood," said Mueller.