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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

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.

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

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

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.

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'