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

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

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

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

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.