Quote

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

Music is such an odd thing when you think about it - behind an image until you take it away, and then you realize a movie sounds blank without it.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.