It has to be very tight to seem loose.

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.

Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?