Vincente Minnelli

It's always the story that interests me.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

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

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.