I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.