"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."

"Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom."

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

"When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries."

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners."

"It is a profound truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists."