As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

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.

Regardless the destination, all roads lead home.

If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it, " then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

Never let your dreams go away.

I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.

When I was younger I always had a dark navy, black tie and everybody would look at me like it was odd, but now it is de rigueur. I'm sure it's my input.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.