“Even if you can’t afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.”
“I love the accessibility that my great nation affords us, but it is virtually inescapable for most people in America, and many places abroad, to rely on inexpensive yet unhealthy meals as a main source of sustenance.”
“I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.”
“I was depressed for a year after ‘The Pianist,’ and I don’t suffer from that, generally. It wasn’t just a depression; it was a mourning.”
“It would be terribly boring to be earnest.”
“It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.”
“Maybe I’m a bit superstitious, but I don’t like to talk about anything until I’ve done it.”
“My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.”
“The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you’re with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it.”
“The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that’s a six or seven year commitment.”