People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

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 are not free to pick and choose the parts of the Bible we want to believe or obey. God has given us all of it, and we should be obedient to all of it.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.