I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

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.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

I said to myself, 'If you don't sit down to it today, when will you ever sit down to it?'

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

'The system made me do it' is the perfect cop-out for today's managers.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.