Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

No one likes documentaries.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

The dead do not hurt you

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

God never gives you more than you can handle. It's your choice on how you deal with what he gives you. You can either grow from it, or you can lie down and give up.

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

If I was to model after someone's career, I would want to model after Justin Timberlake's career.

Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.