If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

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!

Water generates electricity and hence if we waste water, we will be in the dark world.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.