Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

Love must be as beautiful as spring flowers and as bright as the morning sun.

The world's a scene of changes.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

Whoever still can't put one and one together about what happened in cycling is beyond my help.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.