Not that he makes video installations with trippy visuals and no narrative; rather, he experiments with what sort of stories cinema can be used to tell. The Girlfriend Experience, Haywire, The Informant!, Che, The Good German, Bubble, Full Frontal, Solaris, Schizopolis, Kafka and his breakthrough debut feature, Sex, Lies and Videotape are all intensely personal visions that are far from the films that naturally occur within Hollywood studios, or are written by people who read books on screenwriting. They are risky ventures with intriguing, uncommon and sometimes just plain strange narratives. Each feels as though they have been made so that he could answer the question of whether they should be made. “Would a movie about a prostitute who provides a ‘girlfriend experience’ be enjoyable? Well, let’s shoot it and find out!”