We can't understand Brad Pitt. But there was a perversity in that, and I quite liked it. I thought we'd just commit to not understanding what he said. I wanted to make a film that was certainly in the same vein as the last one, partly because I had such a proliferation of ideas and narratives that I'd been told while making the first one. You have a distinct, dizzy camera style in both films.
Style is something that evolves within a director.
As I'm sure I'll go on, my style will change and metamorphose, or however you say that word, into something totally better or more evolved or finer. But you have to start somewhere. It was something I was resisting because it's very important to a filmmaker on his second film to establish his own identity and confidence, if you like. And that's something you can be emasculated by if you're not careful. The second you're subdued by the studio system before you've allowed your confidence to get to a certain level, it can be the death of you, ultimately.