I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

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!

Inner beauty, warm-heartedness and compassion, is what brings about peace of mind.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

And now she began muttering to herself. "God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Immortality doesn't last nearly as long as you think. Even our souls die in the end.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.