I think that there is always a part of utopia in any romantic relationship.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

Be determined to fulfill your dreams.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.