Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to me a good thing.

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

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

God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."

When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.