The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

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!

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. At the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !