I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

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

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.

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

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

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.