I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

You only realize how much you love somebody when one day they dont love you back.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

Music is our myth of the inner life.