If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every great story deserves a great ending

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

A man must know the expectations of his woman and a woman must know the expectations of her man.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.