When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

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.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

It's pretty much, having everything on your shoulder versus depending on an entire team.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.

I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.