We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

译文：每天都要纠正自己的过错。如果哪天没有发现过失，那就会自以为是；如果每天都觉得无过错，那就会寸步难进。天下聪明俊秀的人才不少，他们之所以不去努力地培养德行，扩大事业，是因为受了得过且过的思想影响，耽误终生。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

I think it's important to take risks in filmmaking.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.