My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

A dead love never dies.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

You get to a point in relationships where you don't want to push anything, but things need to change, move on, or develop.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.