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.

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

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.

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.

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

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.