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

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

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.

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

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

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.