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

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

No one likes documentaries.

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."

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

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."

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.