I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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.

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

Optimism is evidence-based.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

Branching is easy. Merging is hard.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.

Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.