You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

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.

Mens videt astra.(The soul sees the stars.)

Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.

She lied to me today, " Archie said."A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.