There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

Whether you convert that diminishing life into something or you don’t convert it to anything is up to you. The life will keep on reducing and diminishing.

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.