I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.

I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.

I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.

There are Christians who are doing the right thing, but not always at the right time

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.