Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

Do not be afraid

It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

I’m the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.

In my dreams it happens, when I wake up I just hope for an even better and stronger UN.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.