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

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.

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

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

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.

There is no easy pathway to success. There are many rugged roads to straighten and walls to scale for the ultimate victory.

True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.

There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.