The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

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.

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?