Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.