"If there were no belief in god, if such a truth were ever realized, then their would be no fear of consequence. Stop for a moment and imagine what this world would be like without consequence and fear. Imagine what we could, what we would do. I dare not think of such a nightmare for it could only be born in pain."

“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.”

“Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.”

Source : Director of the Future of Humanity Institute Nick Bostrom, Nick Bostrom (2013). “Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy”, p.1, Routledge

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

“I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.”

“Leisure with dignity.”

“There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.”

“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”

“I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.”