Every milieu has something ridiculous about it – film-making, the music world, painting – because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

That’s one thing I find about having children – it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who’ve had children.

I don’t like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor – was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

As if there’s a world that exists that you’re semi-privy to yet can’t quite penetrate – that’s how it feels when you’re starting a book.

One of the things that’s good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

I’ve always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don’t think adults do.

I’m fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say – just please close your mouth!

I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn’t get money because my work was so uncommercial.