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

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

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.

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

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

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.