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

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

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."

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention. Steve Jobs was saying, "Don't pay attention to all that stuff. Pay attention to the product you've got in your hand."

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

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

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.