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.

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.

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.

Come and discover a love you don't have to work for.

The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

I'm on this road for the rest of my life.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.