“CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.”

“As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.”

“I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.”

“I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.”

“When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?”

“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.”

“I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.”

“I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.”

“Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.”

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

“You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?”