Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

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!

Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile lands for a farmer’s dream seeds. Change location.

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

[T]he very color of the air in the place I was born was different, the smell of the earth was special, redolent with memories of my parents.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.