I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

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.

Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.