In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

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.

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.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

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.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

You must look into people as well as at them.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.