When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

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.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

You could die, " she whispered. "Everything dies, " he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.

Someone has done something for us. Something that we can never forget. Something that we can't do again even for our own selves.

So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith.

Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.