1. “We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.”
2. “Believing the lie that tie will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”
3. “For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.”
4. “It’s always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you’ve been excited to make.”
5. “Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.”
6. “Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You’re no different.”
7. “I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.”
8. “Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things work better as a film.”
9. “I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.”
10. “People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.”
11. “None of us like violence in real world, but we’re fascinated with it onscreen.”
12. “I don’t think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn’t.”
13. “If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
14. “I’m a big believer in practical and location photography.”
15. “We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.”
16. “How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?”
17. “One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.”
18. “Books are a time machine.”
19. “Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.”
20. “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.”
