And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

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.

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

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.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.

If we want to stay Happily in this world and also after world.Then make home But Not Only on the ground, make home in the heart

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.