I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

A woman is subject matter enough.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

We could give each other a hope, if we communicate with each other in the school, supermarket, bus, train, plane….!

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?

I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.