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 lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.

Hollywood allows you to go and express yourself.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

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.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.