There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

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.

Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you.

What is life, without someone to share with?

There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.