I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.