When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.