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

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

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 imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.

I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things.