I never go overbudget on my movies.

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.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

The moon is my fear.The sun is my heart afire.The stars, my love songs.

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

Human beings are Earthlings and as Earthlings are connected to every other living being on this planet.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.