When you're in love, you're asking someone else to fulfill all your unfulfilled needs, to make you whole, and to make you feel good about everything, and no one can do that.

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

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

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.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.