You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

In fact, writing, especially writing autobiographical works, and this is actually the fourth time I've done it, each time I've done it I've felt deeply immersed in the material as I'm doing it, and then it's over and everything is the same.