I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

God has a plan to make you great, famous, and unique

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

There's a new sexy boy now!