The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma).

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

You can't rely just on talent to win.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.