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 think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

We are not always even what we are most.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.