Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

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.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

We're a little lazy about spirituality in this country.