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.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

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.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.

If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.