I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.