I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

We don't live. We're miming in the choir.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

People don't want to read subtitles.