Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

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 don't need time, I need a deadline.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

...One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.