“I’m the commander—see, I don’t need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation.”

—George W. Bush (in Ridgeway 36)

“What we do now is withhold films from most of America, which is shocking. And what do we withhold? The best films. If you live 30 miles out in mall-land, you can’t see all the great movies. Same with the rest of the world: we export the crap. And then we wonder why everybody hates us and has a distorted picture of what Americans are.”

—Meryl Streep (in King W4)

“We don’t always understand what happens to us, or why.”

—Olivier Assayas (in Dupont 18)