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!

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.

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

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.