People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

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!

I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything.

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.

I don't usually stink. But I stunk today.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.