Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

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

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.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

I actually wanted to publish [ interview with Donald Trump about Citizen Kane] in the New York Times, but the circumstances under which I did that movie made me vulnerable to a lawsuit and at this point in my career, I don't want to go there. But it's amazing.