Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.