It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

Fights in movies are either real or they're cool. This is a comic-book movie, and so the movements and fights have to be exaggerated but also poetic and different.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.