I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, "Where have you been?" The second comment they make is always, "Oh, you've grown up."

There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question. What would LOVE do NOW?

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.