A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Life is like riding, you will only have harmony once you stop fighting it.

The powerful are like a compressor, they will grind into paste everything on their way

Sometimes if you don't get lost, there is a chance, you may never arrive!

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.

Look at this body...Do I look like I use steroids?

Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it.

It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.