I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

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.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

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

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.