I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

All your strength must come from within, because no external source can provide it.

Memories remain a part of one's life, whether that arise, and pass in a bitter or a sweet way.

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

Show me a man who is a time investor, I will show you a successful man

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice