Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

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.

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.

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.

Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God.

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.