My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Death is what makes life an event.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Work on nothing less than epic scale

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.