I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.