If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

When your mind is tranquil, happy and peaceful, you will find peace everywhere.

The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence