I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

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.

Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.

A Man Without A Goal Is A Man Without A Future.

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.