I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

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.

Don’t be afraid to live life. There is grace for the living.

Something will turn up.

Some styles don't look good on bigger women.

The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.