The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining.

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.