Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It's peculiar.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

Things [only] exist once they are represented.

It's great to represent things that are not represented.

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.

People who work in distribution will be distributors all their life.

Each time I had an internship to do or an essay to write, I would always do it in the field of cinema. Nobody in my family worked in film and nobody could understand it.

It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

I fight because it allows me to face my fears head on, and conquer those fears one by one.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking