If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

No one likes documentaries.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.

Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs.

You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.