Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel

You are the universe, so see the beauty of nature and feel the joy of life.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.