Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the ….

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it..

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other….

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the tim….

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face..

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life..

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful….

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsi….

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them..

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor..

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it..

I was dissatisfied just being an actor..

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over..

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times..

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and th….

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that..

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He….

[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delive….

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot..

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting..

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be..