"...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon..."

“I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed that there is a certain ceiling that a woman filmmaker can reach. I don't believe that it's sexism per se, but there are certain expectations in the industry about what films should be, how they should be made, what stories they should tell, and it's a habit, it's a tradition.”

Source : "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

“Don't ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.”

“We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.”

“It pleases me that people can be interactive”

“Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.”

Source : Time, August 28, 1972.

“I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.”

“The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.”

“There is no forgiveness in nature.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”