Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.

I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.

I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.