Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.