I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as though you're asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don't think they'll go do that. They want to see a modern story.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.