[Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

Great. I've been at this school for less than five hours and I've already made two enemies simply by existing. -Clara

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unnecessary weight will have the most valuable cargo to present the Lord.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.