Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Always stay open to surprise.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.