“Conservative values aren’t really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is”

There’s a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information.

When you worship an idol, you’re substituting a thing for the ultimate.

We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

I knew he wouldn’t be able to close his eyes to it.

I get very close to people when I’m shooting them.

It’s an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.

My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland

You can’t worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.

Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.

You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

That’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.

These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context.

You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Look, I’m a conservative, I’m a very conservative guy, and – and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he’s the standard bearer for conservatism.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

Essentially, the obligation of conservative media is to question what’s going on, and say, “Is this something that is the right thing to do? Is it something that’s constitutional? Is it something that is even wise to do?” I think that’s true regardless of who’s in power.

To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.