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.

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.

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.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.