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

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

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

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

What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.

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