I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

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.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.