Vincente Minnelli

It's always the story that interests me.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.