“They probably would’ve had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.”

People just don’t get as engaged in that kind of documentary – they don’t fall in love, they don’t cry, they don’t forget who they are, they don’t ride with you.

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.

I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.

Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.