Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.