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

Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

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

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what [Donald Trump] does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.