I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

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.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?