There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

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.

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.

When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!

Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

My wife is possessive and I like that

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.