I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

You have all the influence you choose to have.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.