When you make a film, you come to say something.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

We've all been wrong- I certainly have- and we should thank those who set us right. Not always fun, but always best in the end.

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

I usually think in terms of music

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.