“I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.”

You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.

In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.

I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.

I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

I’m not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.

I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

Go ahead, take out your dong.’ ‘I’m not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong?

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.

I didn’t think I was going to have to do three, but the idiot kept getting reelected.

They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.