You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

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.

You will regret the moments you didn't let love in a hell of a lot more than the moments you did.

No practice exists in isolation.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

I love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

I want to get America's private sector growing and I know how to do it.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.