Quotes
The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory - death.
The weaker sex, to piety more prone.
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
I remember back when I was doing interviews for Rocky and Bullwinkle, there was this one reporter who came in from Argentina, and she'd ask you a question in Spanish, and then in English.
I never had a good year.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining.