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

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.

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.

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.

Arise and shine bright.

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next

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The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.