The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

Malcolm X felt that if he could make a public - a prominent public statement to show his fidelity to the Honorable Elijah Mohammad that that might win him back in the good graces of the organization.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.