I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I've always loved America.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.

I don't want to think too much about me.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.