Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

The object is freedom.

I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

Are you a fortune-teller? A clairvoyant? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? We predict events will turn out in a negative way because our self-beliefs are limiting.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

The things the writers have me doing on Suburgatory are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.

life is a succession of readjustments.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.