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

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

I used to live in New York City, then when my son was two years old we moved to Cambridge Massachusetts and we've been there ever since. My son is now twenty-nine years old, so we've been up there for a while.