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.

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.

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

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.

What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.