People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

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.

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.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

To change the world takes time

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.