I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Words don't heal. Art heals!

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.