If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I’ve left behind me.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.