This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

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.

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.

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

For the sake of your dreams, don't create negative brands for yourself, else you scare away opportunities that are meant to be your turning point!

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.