There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

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.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

It does no good to be right, if what you're craving is wrong.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.

The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.