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.

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.

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

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

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

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