I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

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.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can’t even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.

You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Crooked Hillary. Look, can you imagine another four years of the Clintons? Seriously. It's time to move on.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.