Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

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

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

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 think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.