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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you are interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

People ask do you make a conscious effort not to swear? - if you are doing silly stuff you are not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I am recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it is not as commonplace to be recognized.

I do not think, Gee, I do like to dress this person. There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

I grew up in a funny way.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always Little House on the Prairie - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I am in a calico dress, basically, so it is kind of funny.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you are interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

It is funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It is a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

It is funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that is causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it is in the Bush Administration.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

I do love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

You know, I have always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I am very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!

I am an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I am funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

Hurried and worried until we are buried, and there is no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They are short, they are intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.