I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

If the world loves you, then you should question your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Those masks we wear not to shield others

Sometimes it can be really rough, but I believe if we love one another more, we can help to share the burdens and make the world a better place.

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

Wherever you are, I am there also.

Women hold up half the sky.