I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

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.

You have to walk with the Creator to find your soul.

Only love can be shared, and the attempt to 'share' an illusion is literally impossible.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.