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.

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.

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

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

I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.

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.