I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

I think improvisation is really crucial in terms of making things feel real and authentic.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.

I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

If you stop learning, you forget what you ready know.

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

Man loves pleasure. But women desire purposeful commitment.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.