"I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are."

"What we're seeing now is that greed is still alive and kicking, and banks are bigger than ever."

"Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive."

"We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says."

"I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side."

"I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree."

"The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time."

"It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides."

"So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done."