You have to invent life.

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!

For every day spent at a job, you empty your life

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.

I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.