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

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

It was assumed that you can't touch evangelical Christians. "Oh, they're the Republican Right. Stay away from those people. Don't even try to talk to them." Well, what's interesting is that there were evangelical Christians who were voting for Kerry. There were right-to-lifers who were voting for Kerry. And it's interesting to listen to the reasons why. To ignore that segment of the electorate is moronic. Particularly if you don't know who those people are, or what their concerns are.