I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location..

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That….

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail..

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how ….

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was tal….

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy..

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself..

People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie….

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to mak….

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it w….

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most in….

Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my ap….

With each movie I have a different set of inspirations..

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that so….

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - n….

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie..

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell..

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've ne….

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely ….

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience..

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal..