People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

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.

When you put the hard work in... reward will come out.

There is only one thing to learn and that is how to love and be love.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

I question why the department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.