No one likes documentaries.

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

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.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet