To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Most people spend their whole lives waging war—against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

The ends do not justify the means

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.