Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

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!

I don’t know. We’ve kissed. It was nice.”“Nice? Nice is getting an extra shot of espresso in a latte. Nice is finding a dollar on the street. Nice is generic.

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.