I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

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!

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.

My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

Rocky is a warrior, we've had a lot of great battles starting from when I was 16. He's a true team player, great fighter, and I have a ton of respect for him.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners