I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.