I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

In the external reality, an action is required for the manifestation, but in the internal reality, all you need is your presence. Just with the inner presence, things begin to unfold.

People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

Productivity is most important by engineering management rules, but enjoyment is most important for engineers. One stems from the other.

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

I don't get mad too much.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.