My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People