My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I don't think any of us are normal people.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

Pain is inevitable as it is pareof life as pleasure is.It all depends on how you tackle it either with determination or with frustration

We are justified by faith.

Vampires are cruel." Steopa said. "we exist to weed out the weak and the unneeded. We feed on humans.

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

I believe everyone should have the freedom to represent what they believe-in in their own way.