I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

Living based in security is living based in fear.