If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

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

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.

Dance less in motion and more in spirit

I don't think you will crawl when you have legs to walk. I don't think you will walk when you have wings to fly.

Never exchange the word of God for any wealth.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.