I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

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.

Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

All you need to do to learn to pray is to pray.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.