Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.