The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

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.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.