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.

I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

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.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.