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

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.

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

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.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.