I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind’s eye.

When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.