You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist.

Don't rely on labels to give you the information you need. Trust only the ingredient list and your gut.

Waste is Criminal.

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.