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

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

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

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

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

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.