I write in the mornings. During my down time.

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.

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 have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.