Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I spent all my youth with horses.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Let your passion serve as your energy source to keep you going.

He liked what he had too much.

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can.

Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.