Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.