Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

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

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

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

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.