I Like To Shoot Beautiful Things. My

When You're With Your Wife, You Don't Say I Love You To Your Wife Every Day But The Ways You Look At Her And Your Actions Are Another Way To Communicate. Don't Focus On Dialogue, Only Focus On What You're Expressing.

But Sometimes I Think You Have To Try To Do Things That People Don't Think Are Doable.

I Think Being A Foreigner And Talking About Hollywood Allowed Me To Use Some Cliches And Some References That An American Would Maybe Not Use.

I Went To Hollywood. I Put The Action In Hollywood. I Watched A Lot Of Movies, Maybe 100 Or Something Close To That. I Have Tons Of Dvds Now At Home. I Don't Know What To Do With Them Because They're Not Useful Anymore. My Kids Never Watched Them. I Read A Lot Of Autobiographies, Listened To A Lot Of Music By Classical Era Composers Like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman And Leonard Bernstein. I Listened To Only That Kind Of Music The Entire Time I Was Writing, Even At Home.

I Always Loved Silent Movies. I Was Not A Specialist, But I Loved Them. And When I Started Directing, I Became Really Fascinated By The Format - How It Works, The Device Of The Silent Movie. It's Not The Same Form Of Expression As A Talkie. The Lack Of Sounds Makes You Participate In The Storytelling