Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

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.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Continuously give without recollecting and get without overlooking dependably.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

Violence does even justice unjustly.