To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

If you can successfully embrace the Anti-Matter version of yourself, Time would cease to exist for You. You are God!

I don’t need a medal to tell me I’m a good guy.

When the question is either/or, the answer is almost alwaysboth/and.

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

Video games just can't compare with the variety and intensity of reading.

I'm really glad my food comes murdered.

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.