My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

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.

Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

Technology is a queer thing

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

I think when you take decisions, you should take them not on the basis of what you believe is a convenient outcome, but what you believe is the right outcome. That's something that is important.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.