At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.

It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

You can't be friends with someone who's in love with you if you don't love that person back the same way.

Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.

Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.