It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
Para Sartre a existência precede a essência, no sentido de que existir precede isso que nós somos; e que somos o que nós mesmos escolhemos ser.
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.
