“I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.”

He came to New York when he was 20. He lived in the States from age 20 to 96, but he brought his culture with him

I don’t know what DVD commentaries are about. I’d like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.

He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.

So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?” It’s all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You’re under constant crisis, making a movie

A lifetime isn’t long enough to learn how to make films.

I’m about my characters.

A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.

You want to make movies on telephones, I’m there.

I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.

I’m in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Then there’s that thing, maybe it’s not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it?

I come from a world where you get the film done, that’s a success.

Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

When you’re not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.

With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.

I’m not the one or two take guy, but I’m not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it’s usually for some technical reasons.

Nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.