Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

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.

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

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.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.