Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life.

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.