In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.

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

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

No one likes documentaries.