I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every great story deserves a great ending

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

. . .Tell me, Clare: why on earth would a lovely girl like you want to marry H

What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Testosterone makes you completely out of control, but that's okay.

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.