But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

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.

He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia.

Life's adversity strengthens us to embrace - life’s true purpose and destiny.

The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.

Only dumb people are happy.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

A lot happens in 20 years.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.