There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to 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.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Many things can make you rich, but only a few things can enrich you.

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.