The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.