“If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

“I never want to make beautiful pictures. I just want to make sure it’s right. Every set up, every shot, represents a choice: what you want to see, and what you don’t want to see.”

“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”

“In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem…. Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.”

“There’s a lot of pressure on romance, I think, because you have to be so truthful. But that’s what you want, isn’t it? You just want to find the truth in everything.”

“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”

“"Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!" (Jon commenting on the parents that blame music for the violence.)”

“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

“The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.”