My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

God can make your enemies your footstool.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.