“This is their real life – texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out – you create your own little trivial world.”

We live in an age where truth really doesn’t matter anymore.

If I’m the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, ‘Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you’re not going to get another nickel in federal funds.

It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life.

It’s an excellent movie. Really excellent.

I’m not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it.

Saddam Hussein… I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you’re going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was – it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don’t care.

It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American that undermines that war, with our soldiers in the field, or undermines the war on terror, with 3,000 dead on 9/11, is a traitor.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not from the character that I had in my mind before, but are instead based on the people I’ve met in real life.

In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.

I feel like battle rap is as popular as it’s ever been, today. With Total Slaughter it’s getting real popular.

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn’t directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.

106 & Park, Freestyle Friday, that was real pivotal. I feel like he has the right to do that, he comes from that era so he has the right to do that.

These Days I’m feeling real good.

I’m like Donatello. For real. You probably want to come play your joints for me get my condolence.

It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.