A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

Since being 17, I can honestly say I've only been ill twice on drink. I stop when I feel happy, so I don't throw up.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.