For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Grief is like a roller coaster. Somedays we feel up and other days we feel down.

Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes should ever have.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.