I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.