I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

I was always interested in films that scar.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

Look, it's nice. I like the fact that critics liked this movie, but most of the movies that I've made, you'll find a handful of people that love it and more than a few other handfuls of people hate it. If I was invested in that, I would've given up long ago.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.