Rob chatted with Amber Wilkinson of EyeForFilm.co.uk about the challenges and rewards of “High Life” at the film’s European premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival. We’ve shared a couple of excerpts from the interview, including the challenges of casting a baby. You can read the interview in its entirety HERE.

“The night before, I was trying to bond with these kids for two-and-a-half hours and the only way I could make them even slightly happy was to pretend to be a monster. They weren’t even happy, they would just stop crying for one second and scream instead. I was like, ‘This is not going to work, unless you want to have an entire movie with a baby that’s looking absolutely terrified.’ So we cast Scarlett, who’s one of my best friend’s kids like the night before we started shooting and, so, I didn’t want to be horrible to her because she’s my friend’s kid.”

“As for the less mainstream nature of his more recent films, he says: “I don’t feel like I’m ‘properly’ arthouse – these are big names. I don’t feel like I’m trying to be super-obscure.”

“I think most super-commercial movies, generally the directors have only done TV commercials before or they are random people. With mainstream movies, I feel like I’ve seen them all before. The amount of scripts you get that are quite formulaic and I don’t know what the point is.”