I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle,….

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn..

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories..

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music..

But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind o….

I was not born to crush my own kind..

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and ….

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing..

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly..

If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I wo….

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony..

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us..

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!.

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every d….

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family..

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show..

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over..

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;….

If you have no inner freedom, what kind of freedom do you expect?.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME..