If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.