Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.