"It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport."

“I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.”

“All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.”

“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

“Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.”

“Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.”

“"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.”

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“I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.”

“My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.”