Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

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.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome’s todger.

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

We are all writing God's poem.

As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification