The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

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.

Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.