I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

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.

I took a heavenly ride through our silenceI knew the moment had arrivedFor killing the past and coming back to life".

I will not let triggers, flashbacks, nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself.

If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.