The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

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!

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.

I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.