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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.