I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

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

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

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.

I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

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.