You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

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)

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.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

It's only a dream Just a memory without anywhere to stay

I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.