I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.