A man touched me: his hand... my thigh. I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.