The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

A person wearing tinted glasses can avoid the conclusion that the entire world is tinted only by being conscious of the glasses themselves.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.