Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.