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I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

I want people to be transported by the hotel. I'm thinking, What is it that would make people be delighted and amazed?

I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.

It's kind of hard when you're on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it's kind of hard to think about everything.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.