Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.