Quotes about "Time & Aging"

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ”

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not. ”

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important. ”

I've been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many actors get that chance? ”

When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts turn to the ceiling. ”

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd. ”

I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction. ”

My favorite uncle died when I was eleven, and that was two months after 9/11, so that was a particularly difficult time with my family. ”

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals. ”

There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time. ”