Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

The effects of overworking

The only calling we have is to “GO

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

I don't like what's going on with voter ID.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.