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.

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.

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.

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

Marriage couple represent one heavenly being.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

If you don't find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.