Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

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

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

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

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters...

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.