You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

I quite enjoy more teamwork and offering something up into the mix.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I know I don't go looking for directors.

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang, ' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

Someone loves us all.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

Donald Trump seems to prefer people he sees as being on his side.