It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

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

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

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.