In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

No one likes documentaries.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

Life doesn't revolve around youIt revolves around those you love

That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your cause

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get abikini wax. [On his running for California Governor]

Pull over to the side of your journey and look how far you've come

The future will be resplendent, and an untold number of souls will be saved, but on one condition: that your sons be devoted to the Blessed Virgin.

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.