I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

Faith is a flaming light.

SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.

I wish you all a long and happy life

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.