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.

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.

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.

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

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his pictures will command attention and have surprise quality.

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.