I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

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

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."

No one likes documentaries.

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

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

In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.