I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

It does not cost you any money to dream.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

People expect me to do the classics, and it is a lot like playing a favorite song.

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

I have been accused of never saying no.