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

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

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.

If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."