Richard Ayoade has described making movies as 'exhilarating' and 'terrifying'
Ayoade is back in the director's chair this week as he helms his new film The Double: which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska.
The Double is Ayoade's second film since he received critical acclaim for Submarine back in 2011.
Speaking to The Guardian, the director said: "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well. And it's sort of continually terrifying because it's just always evaporating.
"I heard Stanley Kubrick describe it in an interview as one of those games where you are trying to get all the balls in the hole.
"If you spoke to someone playing that game and said, 'Are you enjoying that?' He'd go, 'What are you talking about? I just need to get the balls in the hole!'
"You reach a point where any enjoyment has gone and you just have to do it."
The Double is based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and has been adapted for the big screen by Ayoade and Avi Korine.
The movie has played extensively on the festival circuit, and has been met with great acclaim for critics and audiences.
We haven't seen Ayoade on the big screen since The Watch, but he has lent his voice to upcoming animation film The Boxtrolls.
The Double is released 4th April.
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