Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

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.

Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Whasthat!" "Um ... those are the toilets.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.