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

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

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

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.

I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.

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.