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

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

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

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?"

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