It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

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.

Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

It's just incrediable if I play a game, I think don't I?If I watch a film, I just finish a book...

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there".

The classic Aryan who idolized himself and who existed in his own dreams could not bear to see the Jew, the evidence of divine reality, and he would kill him.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.