Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.

All I Ever Loved And TransformedBy My Loving Soul ... God, I Really Do Hope ... No One Is Ever GoingTo Love, It.P.C.M. Hermans

I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.