I'm not a comic person at all.

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.

Wisdom defines the limits of one's knowledge and responsibility pushes one beyond those limits

Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

We will not have failure - only success and new learning.