No one likes documentaries.

I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.