Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

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.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Art upsets, science reasures.

Can you explain what Internet is?

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.