If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.

I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.