The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm a version of the same person.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.