I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

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.

Patience is not something that you keep

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

Believe that God has heard you.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Attack the enemy's strategy.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.