I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

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.

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.