My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

I know what poverty is.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.