Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

I'm too passionate about what I do. I like to get involved.

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.

Someday is now.

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The Great God!

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Sometimes you're going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there's nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.

Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.