I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones that can do it, I tip my hat off to them, but I don't have that kind of humor or mind.

Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same in both media.