The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

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.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.