I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.