I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.