Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.