I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

Only your life's work, driven by passion, will last forever.

Business does not need planning anymore. It demands out-of-the-box thinking.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

May find the right road to travel on.

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.