The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis

On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

I think every director has a different methodology.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

It is still important that every project I do I do something real, that feels true to me.

Art without life is a poor affair.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.