You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

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!

Be yourself. That is where you should always be.

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Even the greatest bringers of justice will only find salvation in surrneder

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.