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.

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.

If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

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.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.