I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

The rules are: The more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold up America to Americans and present it to you in a new way. All I wanted to do is in a funny way say, "Look at your country. It's magnificent."

The honest truth is that it was just traumatizing with the piano, with the authority of the piano teacher, getting rapped across the knuckles, and so whenever you put a piece of music in front of me, there's a Pavlovian reaction where it starts off.

Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short.