It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.