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

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

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.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

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

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

No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.