When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you la….

I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery stor….

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend..

I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't….

I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once..

I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that pe….

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV..

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out..

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable..

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….

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and t….

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life..

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 t….

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting..

I always viewed life as material for a movie..

[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just feels like a film I'm really proud ….

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 diffe….

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what i….

I like the way corduroys feel. I like the sort of jean aspect of corduroys, but also the texture of them. They probably remind me of my childhood, to….

When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been thro….

I get a lot of responses to my movies. Some people say, 'Oh, I thought it was really funny - I hope that's okay!' And my answer always is 'Yes. It's ….