Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.