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.

You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.

Maybe [killers] is one of my real passions. Why deny it?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.