The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

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.

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.

Beyond the mask she is witness to his glorious soul. Exposed to the elements, she warms her skin in his light and essence of being.

I really care about where things are going. I care about what people are feeling and I like to ask the question why.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

I always play more than I talk, so the more I talk, the more I'll play.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?