At School I Was Very Shy. I

I Don't Thrive On Control. I'm Not Looking For Control. I Think I Get Better Results When I Don't Control Things.

I Like The Days When All The Filmmakers Had Was A Film Roll, A Camera And A Gangster. The Mack Sennett Comedies Were All Like That. They'd Create Little Teams To Go Out And Shoot Films.

I Don't Want To Compare Myself To Him - I Don't Want People To See Me As This Great Genius - But When I See Charlie Chaplin's Movies There Is A Combination Of Drama, Naivety And Social Meaning That I Can See In Myself, At A Different Level.

I Have A Video Store Next To My Apartment In Paris, And They Still Have Most Of Their Videos On Vhs. A Lot Of People Think Be Kind Rewind Is Set In The Past Because They Just Wipe This Reality Out Of Their Head, But It Is True That There Are A Lot Of Movies That Don't Exist On Dvd. But I'm Not Like A Big Movie Buff.

I Kind Of Like The Idea Of Taking A Concept And Going All The Way With It, Even If It's Not Completely Plausible. It's Something That I Like About Making Movies. You Have A Concept That Maybe Would Not Work In Real Life, But You Can Make It Work In The World You're Creating.