As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.