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

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.

I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.