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

No one likes documentaries.

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

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

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.

Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

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