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Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema
A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.
I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place.
There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.
I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.
You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?
People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.
At film festivals, I put on my sunglasses and go to sleep because I don't want to see my films again.
I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.
What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.
Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.
The most dominant cultural attributes maintained are the ones that are reinforced by your environment.
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.
If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.
As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.
It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.
It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.