If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Composing gives me great pleasure. . . there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.
Looking good in Italy is even more important than looking where you're going.
With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.