In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.

Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.

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

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

In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children.

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."

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.