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.

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.

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.

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

It looks like President Obama has a new campaign slogan: 'Yes I Did.'

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.