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.

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

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 think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed that I am free of disease and horrendous working conditions. Long may it continue.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.

For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.