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.

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

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

Maybe today I would call Fred Leuchter and there would be two or three other documentary filmmakers interested in his story simply because of the exposure.

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.