I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

Five syllables, " Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.

Money cannot buy friendship.

The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.

I tried to make my life colorful with Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!!

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.