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.

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

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.

You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.

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.