Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method

Fake love, is just as damaging as open hate.

Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

Jesus taught that we'll never be satisfied with anything we own, only with Who owns us.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

I’ve never considered myself a femme fatale as I’ve never seduced anyone and ruined their lives. At least as far as I know.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.