That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

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.

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health.

I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become.

Coming together should be considered something positive for people and communities. When thoughts come together, that can be more positive than an individual thought.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

My accomplishments are endless.