You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

No one likes documentaries.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

You wearing a thigh sheath?”“Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing is more powerful in deciding the quality of life than attitude.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

I always knew what I was doing.

I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.