Peter Bogdanovich is a good 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.

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 think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Basketball is a pure invention.

He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.

the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'