I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

This is the better one. It's identical.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the idea, not the filmmaking.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.