Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

The Internet of things will augment your brain.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I'm no longer interested in the possible.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.