You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

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

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

I do feel that if it's not on the page, there's no hope of it getting to the stage. You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. Sometimes there's this real naïveté that people possess, where they want you to infuse a scene with a certain quality, and it's like an apology. "I read the script, didn't you? What's the agenda here?"