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

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

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

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.

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.