Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

I think America has a brilliant future.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

I’ve learned a hundred secrets, a thousand mysteriesand a million more.But of all the lessons I learned, the greatest is love.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

I grew up with action movies in my head.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Silence kills scandal.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.