I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

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!

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

He's skating like he's 36 again.

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.