You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.