I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole.

If we don't take responsibility for ourselves, someone else will take it for you.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.