Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

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.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

Responsibility is the choice we make to respond with care.