Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

I only know everything if you ask the right questions.

And who will fight Ashur? Choose carefully, for I long for blood.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

The best thing about football is that the rules are so simple. Anyone can play anywhere.

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.