Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.

What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.