By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

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.

Keep an open mind but a skeptical eye.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.