I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.