I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I think sometimes you have to just imagine something that looks pretty impossible. By imagining something that is impossible, automatically you wish you could make it possible.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.

Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Never run back to what broke you.

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.