My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.