If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.