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

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.

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.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.