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.

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

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.

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

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

I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.