Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

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.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Think less. Take action. Be authentic.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.

European football games or evening games seem to take a lot more out of you because you don't sleep that night. And as you get older, it gets worse.