We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

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.

Reach for all the purpose you can and in the end you will find that it was fulfilled

Almost everybody I know has died, ” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.

If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.