Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

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.

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.

I am more emotionally attached to book characters than actual people in my life.

Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

It's time to press the Reset button! Reset the vibration. Change your words to change the vibration.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.