The Red Shoes [is] all over the movie. There’s a shot of her walking up to that house, which I wanted it to feel like that when Barbie walks up to [Weird Barbie’s] house.

When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.

I had to include The Truman Show both because I watched it again before I made this movie, and because Peter Weir very generously got on the phone with me before I started shooting, and he talked to me for a long time about how he shot it and how they made it work.

Yeah! I picked An American in Paris for lots of reasons, but the opening: he lives in this tiny apartment and everything folds into everything else.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: that’s an amazing movie and astonishingly beautiful. I loved the use of color and the surrealness.

Greta Gerwig: The Wizard of Oz, obviously is an extraordinary movie and beautiful and beloved. It does something that I wanted to emulate, which is these incredible sound stages and these painted skies and this sense of… I say, “authentically artificial”, which I think is very beautiful and emotional.