I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

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.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

Do all your eating at a table.

And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.