My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

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!