I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

We hold that happenings which may even compel the heart to break cannot break the human spirit, or rob it of its most essential qualities.

Recipe of SUCCESS needs tons of morale, flavor of attitude and hours of patience to cook.

My talent is that I do not appreciate money in the waythe world appreciates money.The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNovember 16, 2016

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Prepare yourself to be employable.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Just when I thought my day couldnt get any worse, I saw the dead guy next to my locker.