I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

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.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.

I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.

I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.