Quotes by Jonathan Levine

“Every charge they brought against me was bogus. The police dont like me and wanted me to leave town. I have done nothing but help the community.”

“After that came out in the paper, they wanted me gone, they wanted to get rid of me.”

“I want the police to acknowledge that what they did was wrong. They need to explain to the community why they did this to me.”

“In community relations, you dont know for years the effect youve had. Building good relations is like nurturing a friendship over years. In a crisis, you can turn to your friend in another ethnic or religious community and say, I need your help. Bill has been just a master at this kind of community building.”

“He has a gut-level feeling for whats right and what isnt, what will work and what wont. He just has an instinct for choosing when to engage and when not to engage. Its really remarkable.”

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you dont want to be.

There are things that I can tell my friends that I just cant tell my family, just as far as how Im feeling about things. My friends know me the best in a certain way. I just think old friends are really, really important.

I dont like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after Mandy Lane: I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

Right after The Wackness came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didnt do very well at the box office.

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on 50/ 50 why I liked these blending of tones, because I think its kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.