Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

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.

People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

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

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.