I'm more interested to show the darkest places of myself, and I don't joke about it.

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.

I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Well, come back and have tea with us, " saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

I've never made something I've regretted

I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.