If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

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.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

Music has always been part of my life.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be and then go put on the clothes.

I'm just basically a workaholic.