I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

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!

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.