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

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

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

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

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.