Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!

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.

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

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

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.

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.