The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

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

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.