Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.

Close-Up has affected later films that I've made.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.

I have a 12-year-old daughter, and all the time people will say, 'Oh, she's young!" and you'd be so surprised what you can learn from that 12-year-old if you just opened up your mind.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.