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

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.

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

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

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.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.