My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner's eyes. You will feel better.

With all it's going through, we're very proud of our country.

Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.

Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.