When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

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.

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.