I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

I sublet place to place with my fiancé. We don't really have a home. I haven't had a proper home for years.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn’t it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels—they were hell’s minions and I’d stepped into their purgatory.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing - everyone is made up of conscioussness.

I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

She fell into a long sleep and dreamed the dreams of the Dream Tree.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.