It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

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.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

Everyone dies young.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

Why do we wear clothes? Genesis!

The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!