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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 think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can't get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it's flooded.

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

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

She was nice. Nice is good.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

You are what you love, not what loves you.

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

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

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

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

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

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

You've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

CLAIRE
I used to be a baby!

CADAN
I'm sorry.

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

What I came to understand is that change is not a choice, not for a species of plant, not for me. It happens, and you are different.

I like actors - I used to be one.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

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

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I graduated from college in 1980.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

Meet me in Montauk...

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

The end is built into the beginning.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

Clem: Hide me somewhere deeper, somewhere really buried.
Joel: Where?
Clem: Hide me in your humiliation.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

We are what we love, not what loves us.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.