As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

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.

Perfection is not a destination it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

As God achieved with devotion, success is achieved with dedication.

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them.

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

If not for the horses, Piper would've died.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.