You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

The world is thinningand the earth...it's still spinningmy world is thinningand it’s all because of one person I’m missing.

the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums

Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness—these are the only things that are real.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Somebody's been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!