I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

A writer always writes.

She must have been very anxious about a first boy friend to fall in love with a Colgate boy

Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly ­surprising to find how few real descriptions of the experience our literature can boast.

A lot of players in Europe aren't as tall as the other guys, so they have to be stocky to physically compete.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

To seduce most anyone, ask for and listen to his opinion.

Let us live without hate among those who hate

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.