There is nothing quite like 'The Night of the Hunter'. I have never seen a film to which it can be fairly compared.

Everything had to be dismantled within 24 hours starting at 11 p.m. Friday night. To compound matters, there wasn't sufficient time to drain the basin and refill it for the next day.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,

It's quite hard to faze me. I'm fairly un-shockable.