Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

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.

Did you fail? Try, try again. There is no gain without pain.

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.