I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.

I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

I believe love is bittersweet, especially young love.

A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

I think my biggest advice to filmmakers is to look into the many digital platforms that exist for you and your team to distribute your film.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

I feel like social media is something that has yet to be considered a viable platform for marketing in the industry.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Mayor de Blasio wants to eliminate garbage. He believes New York City produces way too much garbage. Well, heck, forget about producing too much garbage. What about late-night talk shows?

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.