I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.

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

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.

Education helps you to find beauty, but you are responsible to see it.

I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.