It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

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!

Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind.

When fail to focus on the light of positivity, the darkness of negativity would start to feel like an unchangeable reality in your life.

Tonight I will take back what is mine.

It is brave to be involved.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.