A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I'm a control freak. Totally.

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

Remain true to the earth.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

What you don't deal with rules your life.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.