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.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

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.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

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

People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.