While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

Mood can be as important as sense.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.