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I've always been interested in this notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.