The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I had no plans to be a director.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.