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.

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 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.

The love that moves the sun and all the other starsThe kind of love that can burn the world or raise it up in glory

Taking the safe road is good, but sometimes, you may miss what could be better. I’d rather love hard and get hurt then not really love at all.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

I'm not anti-immigration.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.