Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.