Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

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.

What you choose also chooses you.

I usually find that the process of discovery is more interesting than the answers.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

A man without a home can't be lost.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.