I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

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.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

You are just like any another person until you try something different!

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.