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

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.

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.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Why not dare yourself to become a shinning positive light where darkness is the only thing known?

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.