There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Is the ocean simply a great pool of tears? I should like to think that even the stars must cry.

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.