I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

I don't feel like it's something I invented myself, rather something I absorbed and continue to do.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I'm German, after all.

There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.