I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

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.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Mind's ultimate objective is to dominate, be careful where and how you use it!

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Money is an echo of value. It's the thunder to Value's Lightning.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.