People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

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.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

It's dogged as does it.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

Theres only three things [Giuliani] mentions in a sentence—a noun, a verb, and 9/11

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.