I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Untold History was a huge challenge. Snowden was no piece of cake, because writing code and breaking code is some of the most boring stuff you've ever seen.
I understand that finance can be very complex.
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
'Next to Normal' was a show many people thought couldn't be done.
My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all.
No one is entertained by economics.
There are two side to every issue.
It's a complicated issue, and you can't boil it down in a tweet... two sentences cannot sum up the whole gun debate... The minute you try to talk about it honestly and openly, you get raked over the coals.