Jules Renard

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.