The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.