The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

When you travel, be fully present in the place of voyage.

Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind.

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.