I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

To write is to inform against others.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I will wait for youNo matter where you areI won't get lostEven if something happensI'll be here loving youAs long as you're thereAs long as you still don't have... Someone else

His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything either.

I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.