I always viewed life as material for a movie.

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

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.