If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish.
One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascistanti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People
Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something. . . it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!
Finding truth involves some kind of activity. As I like to point out, truth isn't handed to you on a platter. It's not something that you get at a cafeteria, where they just put it on your plate. It's a search, a quest, an investigation, a continual process of looking at and looking for evidence, trying to figure out what the evidence means.
No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.
It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.
The fact speak for themselves.
Leaders who insulate themselves from others and choose to bear their burdens single-handedly are destined for loneliness and burnout. Leaders, like everyone else, need friends and perhaps in light of the load they carry, even more so.