I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

Writers express their thoughts through words

To be honest the future of The Life of One Kid... won't go very far... but I won't only put books/films.... and so on and so on... and some short stories I am going to put... from my darkness.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

I think people who are fanatical about anything are funny.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.