It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

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!

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

Sometimes it’s best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

I love traveling all over the world but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.

I don't know that I'm going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't.

The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.