Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

For if light had a sound, it was that laugh.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.