The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

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.

Cara: *Flies*Gen: What? I don't have wings!Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

The purpose is so important that for it someone must sacrifice more than their life - they must sacrifice their honour and their good name. Are you ready for such a sacrifice?

Scared?" "You haven't lived until you go grave robbing.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.