I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

Hope is a flourishing flower.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.

I'd rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.