I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Nobody cares if you're on the cover of a magazine!

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do