1. “You have to invent life.”
2. “The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.”
3. “Sometimes I feel sad, but that is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.”
4. “I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.”
5. “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.”
6. “I had flops, I had success.”
7. “People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.”
8. “It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.”
9. “If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.”
10. “I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.”
11. “The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable. The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.”
12. “You have to be strong to be carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.”
13. “It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.”
14. “It’s peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.”
15. “I cannot say something different to one person ad then another.”
16. “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.”
17. “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.”
18. “Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.”
19. “I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. i love what people bring me.”
20. “This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.”
