The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

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.

Sin may appear good. But by God's commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

It is only human to be kind to others.

Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.