I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

The club is much more important than me, the fans are much more important than me so it's not for me. I'm not working for me, I'm working for the club, for the fans. That's the way I look at things.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.