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

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.

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."

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.

No matter what they take from me, they can't deny who I am.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.