What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

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

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

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

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.

I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.