I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

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

I just - I kind of see it that way. I find the higher angles down. I do - look, you can go back to the staircase shots in "Third Man" or the staircase in "La Dolce Vita." So I just find that visual construction in a frame.

Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.