I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.
When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.
To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.
Do not be content with an imaginary god.
My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.
A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.