It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

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

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view.

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

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