This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

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.

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.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

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

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.