I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

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.

I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

Self-struggle is spiritual. It is only by grace, the divine-self manifest.

My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!

I think somebody's marketing a thing that Hoovers up your Twitter and it will continue tweeting for you after you're dead. I have no idea whether they saw "Be Right Back" or not.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level