“Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.”

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Everything’s a film idea if this is what you do.I’ve always been secretly confident that I’d never run out of ideas,because I’ve never had any.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

I’m me, I live from film to mouth.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that’s how I go about it.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Anyway, I just haven’t been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

It’s part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it’s often only found in moments of truth.

I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I’m just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

It’s always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone’s seen the last one.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.

In all things there is a law of cycles.