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.

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.

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

The press came out with headlines. Trump throws baby out of arena. I don't throw babies out, believe me. I love babies.

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.