Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

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.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

forget normal, we're going to be extraordinary" -Lucas :)

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.