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 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.

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.

Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it

Love is not about making promises but it is about believing

Justice and judgement lie often a world apart."~ Emmeline Pankhurst

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.

To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.