I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

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!

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Having a powerful enough WHY will provide you with the necessary HOW