Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

wealth and greatness are not destined for the grave

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito!

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others.

I play sports.

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.