At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

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!

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.