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

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

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.