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.

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

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

The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

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.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.