I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another 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!

Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.""Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty."I hate wonder bread, " Jason said.Together, they charged.

Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.