Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.

Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.

Something must be birth out of whatever He has given you.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.

Consider fully, act decisively.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.