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

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

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.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.