This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

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.

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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.

The light and the stars guide my way.

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

When you start photographing yourself, you are going to be amazed at all the things you find out about yourself, and you'll be glad you did.

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.

Everybody hates you when youre the best, and everybody hates you when youre the worst.