If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

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."

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

What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.

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.

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