The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

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.

We are FREE, not bound like a Tree. We can Move, we can Dance... We can take a Chance!-RVM

A good marriage is not “made in heaven, ” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.

I found I could not not let the words flow.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.