I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

I was not rescued by a prince

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film that everyone feels ambivalent about.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.

I prefer to do things by myself, but I always bring in people who inspire me.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

I'm definitely someone that's private. I've never been interested in celebrity.