I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

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!

You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

The companies aren't hiring, because consumers don't have enough money to buy the goods and services.

A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.