Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

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!

The essence of warrior traits are demonstrated by : integrity with self, and honesty with others

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew