“I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things.”

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

I’m from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also – I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

I’m trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

Please stop trying to make me the ghost of your past lover.

I don’t generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

I’m trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.

We’re all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.

I’m really focused on These Days and I’m trying to take it as far as I can – I feel like it’s a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.

Sometimes it’s very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.