I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

I knew these false attacks would come. I knew this day would arrive, it's only a question of when. And I knew the American people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.