If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

Running is my church.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.