You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else repeats it. He has legitimized what people only dare say in their kitchens and bedrooms.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

If you don’t do anything today without power

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

I kind of dwindled into acting.