There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

One of the best confidence builder is experience.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

I don't really regret anything in my life.