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

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.