My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.