It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

I have hope because I love you – I’ve been in love with you, Avery. Probably before I even realize that I was

Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.