I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.