I heard our kid here is quite the scrapper.

If upper management found out, they’d send you off to the Probing Department.

He gives new meaning to the word bombed.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.