I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.