I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

My soul is in good shape.

Books … they're kind of a compulsion for me. To find a great bookstore is a great thing.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy.

Actors are investigators.