When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.

Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it was made.