I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

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.

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

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.

The dream is a definite possibility.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

Don't change for anyone. The people that matter don't care, and the people that care don't matter.