The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

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.

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

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.

A benevolent universe of spirit helpers sits at the ready to support your unfolding joy. All you have to do is ask.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.

I believe that women make some of the best leaders.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.