I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

Smile and be beautiful and kind like a flower.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.