I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

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.

Being in love with someone who doesn't love you back is a tragedy. A fantasy is having someone understand the real you and love you anyway.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

When God brings all things to light, you will discover just how significant you've been in God's plan.

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

I lead a very conventional life.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.