However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time