Poitras Quotes

#1. Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Leonard Maltin

#2. I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Laura Poitras

#3. I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

Chris Cleave

#4. People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

Laura Poitras

#5. In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

Laura Poitras

#6. Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

Laura Poitras

#7. I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

Laura Poitras

#8. The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

Susan Sarandon

#9. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

Laura Poitras

#10. Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.

Toba Beta

#11. I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.

Nina Conti

#12. The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do.

Laura Poitras

#13. One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

Laura Poitras

#14. Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Ferdinand Foch said, "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." What a tragedy to leave this life without a flicker of a legacy, without a flame of a witness.

James Poitras

#16. It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

Laura Poitras

#17. When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

Laura Poitras

#18. I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Willie Geist

#19. It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

David Levithan

#20. That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

Laura Poitras

#21. The fact that the CIA knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers were entering the United States and didn't notify the FBI and that nobody lost their job is shocking. Instead, we occupied Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. I mean, how did those choices get made?

Laura Poitras

#22. Every time we came back from a rough mission we had to shake up the line-up and twice we had to find a whole new infield. They had a hot club in our squadron once before, the best in the whole division and then they went to Schweinfurt.

Bert Stiles

#23. In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals ...

Laura Poitras