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

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.

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.

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

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.

As I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.

These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn’t accept money from strangers.

Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

It’s as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you’re living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?