I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

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!

I have a dream.” “Is your dream very big?” “No.” “Well is it very grand?” “Not either.” “Neither?” “Neither.” “What is it then?” “It is very shiny.

We are not just a piece of meat which was born like an animal

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.

You don't have to wait for an inspiration to fulfil your dream because a dream is an inspiration itself.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.