An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

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.

Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.