I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

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.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

AA makes Scientology look credible.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.