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

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.

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.

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

Different strokes for different folks.

When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.