I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

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.

A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.