In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

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 may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

Reality is mind-made.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.