Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

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.

When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

A nation without heroes is nothing.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.