I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

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.

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.