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.

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.

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

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.