Could I imagine a world without cursing? Hell, no! Every place I've ever gone, people have had to hold their ears.

I also like dogs and cryptic crosswords.

I like collecting rocks,” she smiles. “I’m obsessed with them. I don’t pick up any old rock; it has to have some kind of interest.

Through the winter before we tuck up at night, I always warm the bed with a hairdryer.

I’m a rather slow writer and I have to go to a coffee shop. I turn my back to the crowd in the cafe, so that everyone’s chatting and the noise of the place rises behind me, and then I just keep my head down and churn out my screenplay. I can’t write at home, because I get too lazy. I’ll just want to watch TV or fall asleep. But I’m not allowed to lie down and fall asleep in the cafe, right? So it kind of forces me to work.

I wanted to create a very delicate and detailed film where you would feel like you could even smell every single character.

There were times when I thought I wanted to be a cartoonist. If I weren’t a film director, I think cartoons would have been a good alternative. But I never properly studied drawing, so my drawings are strange. But when I’m prepping films, it’s good preparation — and comforting to me — to do the storyboards. It’s fun, too, like drawing a whole comic.