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."

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.

A sincere praise to God makes soul prospers.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.