Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.
I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.
I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.
No job in America should go unfilled because somebody doesn't have the right skills to get that job, nobody. So, if there's a job open, we should train those folks right away so that they can do the job.
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us