She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

My father said, "Okay, enough with the Jewish school." He put me into a public school and he said, "If you are the first one in your class, that means the school is bad." That was his humor.

What I hate in movies is all those people you need. And then I realize I do better when I shoot by myself.

When I'm in my neighborhood, I don't see anything anymore, because I'm so used to it. When I go somewhere else, suddenly, I'm alive. I'm on alert, and I can be fresh.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

Death is my neighbor now.

I've always lived to seize the moment, to squeeze every drop of expectation out of myself for whatever that moment gives you.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.