I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

While we insists on destroying the world, God is doing incredible things to save it.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

Memories consumeLike opening the woundI'm picking me apart againYou all assumeI'm safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again.

I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

I make pink look pretty damn good.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Overnight success stories take a long time.