“He has Van Goghs ear for music.”

“He has Van Gogh's ear for music.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

“France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.”

“Never marry someone who doesnt love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.”

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”

“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”

“Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.”

“You float like a feather," sings Radiohead, "In a beautiful world." I've listened several times to the Radiohead songs, because it was nice of Raymond to say he heard a bit of them in what I sang. ...”

“I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.”