Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

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.

Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.