I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Maybe the dreams make the people stronger, whatever.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

I think there can be incestuous love.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

The canvas of your life can reflect infinite beauty depending on the colors you opt to splash on it.

And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

I see you try to hurt me bad. Don't know what you're up against. Maybe you should reconsider; come up with another plan. Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl. I'll just get back up again.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.