That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.
I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
There's nothing efficient about innovation.
What I really liked about Ceriz is that it is fun, glamorous, and very effortless.
In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.
Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.
The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.
There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
