I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

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!

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

Women’s liberation did not see the female’s potential in terms of the male’s actual

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face.

Women haven't yet completely exchanged their privileges for their rights.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.