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

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.