I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Real reading is a lonely activity.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.