I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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.

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.