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.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

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

And then he was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail

I never enjoyed working in a film.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

You are only as good as your team.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.