When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.

I want to do that thing rich people do where they turn money into more money.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.