I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.