“You are what you are when nobody is looking.”

I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana – if it’s prescribed by a physician.

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they’re alike. They’re both wonderful as long as they last.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

How should they answer?

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.

I can’t just settle for anybody. The fact is I’m choosy, but mainly about a man’s character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don’t even mind if he’s not very good-looking.

I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.

Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.