Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

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.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Life is holy endured faith.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve