Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.

The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

Pretty girls have problems too.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.