When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

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.

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

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.

You see every day of life as a bonus once you have inner peace.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

Time is making fools of us again.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

Girls just want to have fun. Well, so do old ladies!

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.