The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

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.

In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness.

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.