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.

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.

You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice.

No one likes documentaries.

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

Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.

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