No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

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.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.

I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

I have a lot of beliefs... and I live by none of them...

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.