I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a film?"

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.