I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

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.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

This was fun. We should find out we're still married more often.""Why, so every day can be a special new plunge into hell?""Nobody I'd rather burn with than you, babe.

You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

Different cocktails for different Saturday nights.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.