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.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

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.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’shandwork. Now I have seen that handwork, and my faith is sorely troubled.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.