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

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.

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.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

God is my only leader. Truth is my only sword. Guided only by my conscience, I am a true citizen of the world.

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.

Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

You can be very promiscuous in your research, but not in your trading.