The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.

Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.