Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.

It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher things people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there's no distinction between the two.