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

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.

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.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.

My motto - sans limites.

Less land, less time, more crop.

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.