When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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.

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don’t want it.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.