I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].

Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending church may encourage someone who is searching for God.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.